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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." --Aesop 

Governor Fletcher Wants To Triple My State Income Tax – Part 2        By Theresa Fritz Camoriano          Last week, I wrote an article about the proposed sales tax on services.  I received several e-mails criticizing or disagreeing with the points that were made in the article, and I would like to respond to them here.  The comments that were made by readers are in bold, followed by my responses.        (click to read more)

Taxing business 101         By George Baumler         As the KY legislature gathers to "modernize" our tax system, they should be watched carefully, to make sure they aren't selling the "old tax business" snake oil.  To the unsophisticated, taxing business, especially big (Read profitable) business or corporations, seems at first glance a way to avoid paying for government services or entitlement programs out of their own pockets.  While this rhetoric is good for hoodwinking the uneducated, it does not bear up well under even casual inspection -- its flaws visible to all but the densest.  Those who advocate such schemes are well aware, as educated men or women, that what they are doing is tantamount to smoke and mirrors, and they assume that there aren't enough libertarians around to challenge the "something for nothing" fraud.           (click to read more)

Attempted takeover 'all wet'          By: Dan Ewing           As cities across the nation face mounting deficits, farsighted government leaders are increasingly seeking free market solutions in the delivery of public services.        (click to read more)

Is Class Size More Precious than Full-Day Kindergarten?          by Charles M. Freeland, an adjunct scholar of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation ands a corporate attorney in Indianapolis. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Indiana University. He is the author of "How Collective Bargaining Hurts Public Schools" and other published work on education reform.

Almost everyone likes Governor Kernan's proposal for full-day kindergarten ‹ as long as a way to pay for it can be found. The teacher unions like it so much that they were initially willing to let the state dip into their already under-funded pension fund to help pay part of the cost, estimated at somewhere between $80 million and $154 million per year. That is because most of the money would go to hire additional teachers.        (click to read more)

The Bluegrass Digest   Vol 2, No 2

CBS and the FCC: Is America Big Enough for Both?        By Jonathan David Morris         According to Matt Drudge, FCC Chairman Michael Powell "considered holding a dramatic license revocation hearing against CBS" following Janet Jackson's sexual escapades with Justin Timberlake during the Super Bowl halftime show.         (click to read more)

MAKING THE FLAT TAX A REALITY        (Second of a Series) by Rod D. Martin, 13 February 2004         In an article last month, titled, "Tax Reform for the New Century," I made the case for replacing our oppressive and incomprehensible tax system with a flat tax.          (click to read more)

Did You Know of The Many Religious Symbols in the U.S. Capitol?         (rec’d from a reader)         As you walk up the steps to the Capitol Building which houses the Supreme Court, you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view - it is Moses and the Ten Commandments!        (click to read more)

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be 'cured' against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. But to be punished, however severely, because we have deserved it, because we 'ought to have known better,' is to be treated as a human person made in God's image.”

-- C.S. Lewis

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