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States and localities should carefully evaluate the effectiveness of the incentives they offer to attract or retain businesses. 

Policymakers should retain estate and inheritance taxes as important components of our tax structure. 

Federal and state estate and inheritance taxes should affect only the largest transfers. 

When considering bond financing, state and local policymakers should: 

Policymakers should require employers to provide employees with predictable schedules.

All workers should have access to both employment protections and some benefits such as health and retirement.

Federal, state, and local policymakers should ensure the proper classification of workers. Those who should have access to employee protections and benefits should receive them. 

Bans, including temporary ones, on the regulation of companies in the online gig economy (such as Uber) or the application of existing employment laws to their practices are not warranted. 

Congress and state legislatures should require employers that provide benefits to regular, full-time employees to extend them to part-time employees on a prorated basis. 

Employers should be required to disclose to workers when they are being hired as independent contractors. They should provide a clear explanation of what that means.