Kudos to the Tax Law Center for laying out these tax reform options so clearly.

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A number of interesting nuggets I liked from Zachary Liscow's new paper proposing a permitting reform 'Green Bargain,' which I highly suggest you read. 1/n

I love this paper, and it's a good excuse to finally post my own forthcoming chapter on age and local government law.

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That seniors run the show is something everyone in local gov knows--but not something we talk about in the legal literature.

Excellent podcast with Ezra Klein & Jerusalem on why it's so hard to build in the US. Especially interesting on the political economy of state & local governments. nytimes.com/2024/04/16/pod…

Seems like a very worthwhile & uniting issue for Congress. Whether it is energy infrastructure, chips, defense industrial base and ships, housing, we need to make it easier to build.

Starting to read this — it’s great — and there a couple of points worth highlighting:

1. NEPA requirements “piggyback” on agencies’ permitting requirements, but do NOT exhaust them. This is why the “umbrella law” nomenclature is misleading — and why other permitting laws matter.

Yes this is the right way forward. Kudos to Prof. Zachary Liscow on an important new infrastructure study.

The cost side is where the data is, so that's what we talk about.

But I think almost all the work is being done on the benefits side. Does an EIS actually surface important considerations? Does the third zoning hearing actually improve planning? (2/3)

This is an exceptionally clear and insightful paper by Zachary Liscow, whose expertise and experience make him the perfect person to have written this piece.

I could not recommend this paper more highly for researchers, for anyone interested in infrastructure policy, and as a…