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Legislators should not adopt supermajority voting requirements for budgetary or tax matters. 

Policymakers should provide for transparency and honesty in the budget process. 

Governments should avoid enacting laws that are inconsistent with U.S. Supreme Court precedent on takings.

A variety of criteria should be used when evaluating proposals to stimulate the economy: 

Relief packages for people facing hardships due to economic downturns should be temporary and well-targeted.

The debate over immigration to the U.S.

States should adequately fund and broaden their methods of financing public education. Education financing should be shifted from property taxes to less regressive forms of taxation. 

States should generally avoid arbitrary limitations on property taxes.

Property taxes should be equitable. 

Policymakers should broaden the tax base by limiting tax preferences that do not efficiently achieve important policy goals.