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The Bluegrass Digest  Volume 4, No 3

Tax and Spending Reduction: How to build more – and better – roads at lower cost

    Leasing toll roads to private companies is sound policy ensuring needed thoroughfares get built in the future while existing highways are properly maintained.

School Choice: Home-schooled students, well-adjusted kids

     How can labor groups who voluntarily join together support coercive policies that deny Kentucky employees to right to choose – or refuse – union membership?

Labor Freedom: Will new alliance reverse AFL-CIO’s decline?

     Compulsory unionism intimidates employees, forcing them to pay dues whether they want to or not.

Health Care Reform: Law stifles competition, reduces supply and increases health-care costs

     Kentucky’s Certificates of Need policy was implemented with good intentions. The results, which include stifling competition by limiting the number of health-care facilities, are anything but noble.

That’s Outstanding!: Legislators enter ‘arena’ of tough questions

     Thank goodness, some lawmakers are asking the hard questions about the Louisville arena project.

That’s Outrageous!: Frivolous funding could result in Kentucky’s tourism industry going to the … elks?

     Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s big idea for attracting tourists is to spend $3 million building elk-viewing stands in the mountains. While elks’ antlers may be among the largest in the animal kingdom, Fletcher’s idea for attracting tourists is short on potential.

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