Time to Flush the Nanny State and Shine the Light on Unseen Freedoms
The Founders had no need to spell out your right to choose your own light bulb and toilet. They protected that right just the same.
Those who would participate in politics should possess a healthy sense of humor. It helps.
As if things weren’t already confusing enough in the vocational-neckwear department, they just had to go and add another category.
America’s relatively high tax rate on corporate income is one reason why American corporations are more highly leveraged than are many of their competitors.
RALEIGH -- The economy started to slow in fiscal 2008. Even so, local governments took in an extra half billion dollars -- revenues rose to $15.09 billion -- but all of it came essentially from higher property tax collections.
Government funding sustained some programs that might not have otherwise found an audience, but it also sustained bias, accommodated waste, and created conflicts of interest.
Reducing the state’s uncompetitive rate is a good idea. Scrapping the tax entirely would be even better.
The paper in Fond du Lac, Wisc., pretty much sums up how the media has covered the Wisconsin budget battle.