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“[State controlled] education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” – Joseph Stalin

"[I]f you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever.  But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with."

--Ronald Reagan

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

--- Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)  Roman Historian and Statesman

Budget Priorities, Subsidizing Communism, Right to Work, and Science Olympiad       By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

1.         Budget Priorities:  Can we agree on one thing?

            While leftists, rightists?, and libertarians may disagree about whether taxpayers should be required to subsidize poor people, we all ought to be able to agree that taxpayers (mainly the middle class) should not be required to subsidize businesses and other middle class or wealthy people.  Government should not be picking favorites among businesses, forcing one to subsidize another, and it should not be picking favorites among taxpayers, forcing one middle class person to subsidize another.             (click to read more)

Don't take the bait     By: Christopher J. Derry

State senators must look long and hard at the bipartisan decision of 96 members of the House to increase taxes on Kentuckians. Representatives swallowed the proposal – hook, line and sinker – that the House version of Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s JOBS for Kentucky initiative will reinvigorate the state’s economy

The governor touts his plan as one that will stimulate economic investment and remove obstacles to job growth. Yet the proposal passed by the House raises more than $133 million in new taxes beginning in July.           (click to read more)

The Promise of Social Security     

“After the first three years -- that is to say, beginning in 1940 -- you will pay, and your employer will pay, 1.5 cents for each dollar you earn, up to $3,000 a year. ... Beginning in 1943, you will pay 2 cents, and so will your employer, for every dollar you earn for the next 3 years. ... And finally, beginning in 1949, 12 years from now, you and your employer will each pay 3 cents on each dollar you earn, up to $3,000 a year. ... That is the most you will ever pay."           (click to read more)

The Bluegrass Digest Vol 3, No 2  February 20, 2005

TAX AND SPENDING REDUCTION:  Corporate welfare is poor tax policy

If you have to pay a business to relocate, it’s usually the wrong business.

SCHOOL CHOICE: Undereducated today, outsourced tomorrow

We can’t afford to fall any further behind.           (click to read more)

Two Cheers for Governor Daniels      D. Eric Schansberg,  Professor of Economics  Indiana University Southeast

Emerging from a stint as the first budget director in the Bush administration-- a group both fiscally liberal and quite willing to use public policy to score political points at the expense of the economy-- it wasn't clear how Mitch Daniels would approach policy decisions as governor. When he faced such a choice, would he craft good economic policy or try to please political constituents? His most famous proposal has been to (temporarily) increase taxes on those with relatively high incomes. Although it'd be difficult to describe a tax increase as good economic policy, it's an interesting proposal because it would seem to irritate one of his stronger constituencies. Since then, Daniels' comments in two smaller areas continue to signal his willingness to forsake political gain-- this time, by embracing good economic policy.           (click to read more)

LEAVING BEHIND NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND

“Utah's state Legislature is poised to repudiate the No Child Left Behind Act and spurn $116 million in federal aid tied to it because state policy-makers are fed up with federal control of education and dictates.  ‘This is not a partisan issue; this is a states' rights issue,’ said Rep. Margaret Dayton, a 55-year-old Republican and mother of 12 who has led the rebellion to make Utah the first state to opt out of No Child Left Behind.           (click to read more)

“Talk Is Cheap...Let’s Go Play!”  Delivered to the California Libertarian Party Convention    by Chuck Muth,  President, Citizen Outreach  Los Angeles, California  February 19, 2005

Thank you.  Let me begin my remarks by predicting that in the next two years, Republicans are going to blow it.

When Ronald Reagan was in the White House, we were told government couldn’t be restrained because Democrats controlled Congress.           (click to read more)

Obvious often means overlooked     by Kurt St. Angelo,  Libertarian Writers' Bureau

My favorite childhood story was about a herd of hippos that played hide n' seek. The baby hippo's best hiding place was on a ledge just above -- though in plain view of -- the herd's elders, who never found the baby because they never looked up. Obvious often means overlooked.

And so it is with jail overcrowding in the Circle City. County jails lack space for everyone who's been arrested. Last year there were almost 2,000 emergency releases to free space.           (click to read more)

Libertarians Endorse Ohio-TEL Amendment Step in the Right Direction    

The Libertarian Party of Ohio has endorsed the Ohio-TEL amendment and will make it a centerpiece of their campaigns for 2006.  The proposed Ohio-TEL amendment would restrict taxing and spending to rate of inflation and population growth.  Michigan, Colorado, and Washington state each have TEL amendments.           (click to read more)

Time to slam shut the 'golden door'      by Henry Lamb

A plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty says:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

For centuries, people from around the world have accepted this invitation to become a part of America – the great land of freedom and opportunity. Most of these people complied with the law that allowed them to melt into the American culture and become contributors to this great nation.            (click to read more)

When bureaucrats control the country       By Henry Lamb

The Missouri legislators who approved a water law (HB 1433) in the waning moments of last year's session no doubt thought they were creating something to help protect clean water in a nine-county area. That's what they were told by reputable employees of the state agencies and influential lobbyists from environmental organizations.

The new law created a nine-county district in which water policy would be developed and enforced by appointed – not elected – officials.            (click to read more)

Constitutional Meltdown      By John Riley

Remember the famous words "Taxation without representation!" prior to the revolution?  Well, as it turns out, "TAXATION WITH REPRESENTATION!"  ain't so hot either.  The federal government has grown so far beyond the limits of the Constitution, and so must the taxation of the people continue to grow.  The founders of our nation took these things seriously and crafted a democratic "Representative Republic" governed by the limits of the all important Constitution.             (click to read more)

Keeping the Faith… At Arm’s Length.      By Justin Darr

When television personality Bill Maher stated on MSNBC’s  “Scarborough Country" that the religious suffer from a neurological disorder that "stops people from thinking," he committed a grievous sin.  Not against the Christian Community that he was mocking, but against his fellow liberals.  You see, the Left has its own set of  “10 Commandments,” and like our own, they do not want anyone seeing them in public.  And, Bill Maher has broken one of the most sacred of these Commandments by being honest and articulating what he, and many other liberals, think about America’s Christians.           (click to read more)

ROBIN HOOD REPUBLICANS        By Rod D. Martin, 21 February 2005

 It has long been said that Robin Hood, that populist bandit of legend, "stole from the rich to give to the poor."  More than a few liberals have invoked his heroism as a justification for the "progressive" income tax and every manner of government compulsion.

But in many, if not most, versions of the legend, "the rich" aren't the target at all.           (click to read more)

Set Thine House In Order      By Jonathan David Morris

"Anger is a gift.” - Zack de la Rocha

A few days ago, a friend told me I don’t write as angry as I used to. “You were better when you were mad,” he said. A few months ago, a reader made a similar observation. Actually, what he said was: “Are you too happily married? You’re losing your edge.”            (click to read more)

“Forget her prepared speeches, put aside her moderate statements on Iraq and abortion. This is how you know (Hillary Clinton’s) running for president in 2008. Ten days ago a reporter interviewed her in the halls of the Senate and asked if she planned to run for president. She did not say, ‘I'm too busy serving the people of New York to think about the future.’ She did not say, ‘Oh, I already have a heckuva lot on my plate.’ She said, ‘I have more than I can say grace over right now.’

“I have more than I can say grace over right now.  What a wonderfully premeditated ad lib for the Age of Red State Dominance. I suggested a few weeks ago that Mrs. Clinton was about to get very, very religious. But her words came across as pious and smarmy, like Tammy Faye with a law degree. Maybe she still thinks in stereotypes; maybe she thinks that's what little Christian ladies talk like while they stay home baking cookies. Whatever, it was almost as good as her saying, ‘I'm running, is this not obvious to even the slowest of you?’"

- Columnist Peggy Noonan

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