Yours truly recently had a chance to thumbnail three of our recent studies on daytime TV (and preview a fourth). For really busy people, here’s a brisk summary of our key findings on state revenue lost to subsidies and loopholes, state disclosure practices, and interstate job piracy.

A large national poll of independent business owners finds that cutting taxpayer subsidies to big business is their top-rated public policy priority. And a smaller survey of high-growth entrepreneurs finds that the last things they are concerned about are low taxes or business-friendly regulations.

A common platitude among conservatives is that government should not interfere with free markets. Yet in last week’s vote among Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga on whether they wanted to join the United Auto Workers (UAW), Tennessee politicians and outside ideologues went to extraordinary lengths to meddle in the business of one of the world’s most successful corporations.

Update: Citing “what appears to have been a coordinated and widely-publicized coercive campaign” by at least six named Tennessee elected officials, the UAW filed a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board on February 21 claiming interference and seeking that the vote be set aside and held again.

For reasons that will hopefully become clear as more evidence comes out, Indiana’s privatized Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) continues to play games with its jobs numbers.