Economist
Scott works in the Tax Foundation's Center for State Tax Policy, where his research covers issues as diverse as the effect of progressive income taxes on revenue volatility to the effect of sin taxes on obesity and nutrition outcomes. He is an author of the annual State Business Tax Climate Index and the editor of the popular handbook, Facts & Figures: How Does Your State Compare?
His analyses of tax and spending policy have been featured in scores of media outlets across the country, including USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Orange County Register, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Star-Ledger, the Sacramento Bee, CNN.com, Yahoo News, the Huffington Post, National Review, Reuters, the Associated Press, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, the trade publication State Tax Notes, and the peer-reviewed Journal of State Taxation. He has given legislative testimony in Florida and Vermont.
Prior to joining the Tax Foundation, Scott was selected as a Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow by the Institute for Humane Studies and served as a Ronald Reagan Fellow in the Goldwater Institute’s Center for Economic Prosperity. His work can be seen in their quarterly publication, For the Record. In 2012, he completed a year of non-profit management training through the Koch Associate Program. He holds a B.S. in economics from the University of Mary Washington, where he founded the Libertarian Readers Society and served as the Vice President of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international economics honor society. He is a candidate for an M.A. in economics at George Mason University.
