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Jon L. Pritchett
Jon L. Pritchett (@tobaccoroadguy) is president and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, the state’s non-partisan, free-market think tank. Prior to joining MCPP, Jon was senior vice president of the John Locke Foundation. He also worked as an investment banker, executive, and entrepreneur over a 28-year career in private business. Pritchett is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his opinions have been published in Forbes, National Review, the Washington Examiner, the Federalist, the Foundation for Economic Education, the Daily Signal, and many state and local newspapers.
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We celebrate July 4 as our Independence Day because that was the date of the formal adoption of the Declaration of Independence by Congress. The year was 1776, but the goal of establishing a government by which the people largely…
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Jon L. Pritchett | Mar 1, 2020
Over many decades in America, we’ve observed a great shift in the manner by which society attempts to solve problems. Despite a governmental system designed by founders who were suspicious of centralized government power, we continue to fund a larger…