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Tax reform and simplification
Read more: Tax reform and simplificationOur tax system has a bias against saving and investment. That slows capital formation and wage growth.
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Taxpayer Bill Of Rights (TABOR) eviscerated
Read more: Taxpayer Bill Of Rights (TABOR) evisceratedBy Karl Peterjohn Governor Bill Owens won a Pyrrhic victory in his campaign to eliminate the Taxpayers Bill Of Rights (TABOR) limits on government growth in Colorado. Owens’ short lived Proposition C victory will lead to a host of long term consequences that are mainly negative for Coloradans looking for a better economic future for…
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Reports of TABOR’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Read more: Reports of TABOR’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggeratedby Alan Cobb The supporters of Big Government were overjoyed this week when 52 percent of Colorado voters backed an effort to fix a glitch in that state’s hugely successful Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights by allowing the state government to keep an estimated $3.7 billion in scheduled tax relief over the next five years. This…
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What Is the true state of public education in Kansas?
Read more: What Is the true state of public education in Kansas?So what is the true state of public education in Kansas? There are many studies and statistics available. Many contradict the conclusions made by others. Constituencies such as the teachers unions and the education establishment tell us they have only the welfare of the children as their concern, but many times they act otherwise. Who…
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How one school found a way to spell success
Read more: How one school found a way to spell successIn the October 14, 2005 Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger wrote about an elementary school in Little Rock, Arkansas that experienced a remarkable turnaround in student achievement. This poor school, where 92% of the students live at or below the poverty level, was able to increase its scores on an achievement test by 17% in…
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Read more: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big DifferenceThis is an interesting book that tells us that often the way to affect change is not through heavy-handed techniques, but by paying attention to small things that can make all the difference. Mr. Gladwell tells us about the Law of the Few (connectors, mavens, and salesmen), which means that the personal characteristics of people…
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How government destroys self-reliance
Read more: How government destroys self-relianceThere is a problem when government interferes with what people should be doing for themselves. Government can destroy the incentive to provide for yourself and your family.
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How government insurance destroyed New Orleans
Read more: How government insurance destroyed New OrleansIn the September 3, 2005 New York Times, columnist John Tierney educates us on the difference between private insurance and government insurance. Currently, the flood insurance that’s available through the federal government, because the premiums are so low, doesn’t fully reflect the costs of assuming that risk. And even as cheap as the flood insurance…
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How About Something Simple Like the Truth
Read more: How About Something Simple Like the TruthWhile TABOR supporters offer hope and solutions to getting out of our economic slump, opponents offer nothing but nay-saying, scare tactics and misinformation.
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Criticism of Bob Corkins reveals true motivations
Read more: Criticism of Bob Corkins reveals true motivationsI have not met Bob Corkins, but I have read some of his articles. I published several on the Voice For Liberty in Wichita. He is in favor of school choice, and that is one thing that the education establishment, education bureaucrats, and teachers unions are very much opposed to. Never mind that allowing school…
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Book Review: Winning The Future
Read more: Book Review: Winning The FutureThis book by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich outlines his prescription for what America needs to do to avoid decline. The five threats Gingrich identifies are Islamic terrorism, that God will be driven from American life, that America will lose its patriotic sense of self, that America will lose its economic supremacy to…
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TABORTruth.org Not Quite So
Read more: TABORTruth.org Not Quite SoRight away the website tabortruth.org states: “TABOR proponents are baiting citizens with the allure of tax cuts, …” My understanding of proposals for a TABOR in Kansas doesn’t include tax cuts, except in one case. That’s because taxing and spending will proceed in this way: First, spend up to the limit imposed by the sum…