John LaPlante
Tuesday, May 8, 2007Tax Me More, for the ChildrenFiled As: Budget and Tax, Education (k-12)Shift and shaft? Bill Ritter, governor of Colorado, wants to increase property taxes by $1.7 billion over the next ten years. Jon Caldera, however, finds a lot wrong with the idea. Caldera, president of the Independence Institute, says in an e-mail broadcast that the ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 8, 2007The Big Tax Shift?Pennsylvania to vote on tax swap for schools Filed As: Budget and TaxVoters in Pennsylvania will be asked on May 15 to vote on a fairly complicated tax scheme. The Commonwealth Foundation has the details on the proposal, which would increase some income taxes and ... more »»
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Monday, May 14, 2007Economic Reality Dooms Illinois PlanFiled As: Health CareAmbitious plans for tax-financed health care coverage must, at some point, meet the reality test. Today's Wall Street Journal editorial page offers a review of one bold experiment that went nowhere, once everyone realized that economic reality would set in. Invoking religious overtones, populism,... more »»
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Friday, May 11, 2007Drug Importation Programs: from Sizzle to FizzleFiled As: Health Care"Three years ago," writes Kimberly A. Strassel, "grandstanding governors and mayors vowed to break federal law and set up state-run drug import programs, giving millions of citizens the 'opportunity' to buy cheap Canadian drugs." So how did that experiment turn out? ... more »»
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Friday, May 11, 2007High Gas Prices? Politicians Cause Problems, then ComplainSummertime driving will bring complaints Filed As: Budget and Tax, Economic principles, GeneralWe're still a few weeks away from summertime driving, when complaints about "price gouging" will bloom. But just who is doing the gouging? Supply and demand rule, but governments intrude through a variety of means, pushing up prices even more. Taxes Start with ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 9, 2007County Says NO to Corporate WelfareFiled As: Budget and TaxIn an age when governments compete with other to see who can waste the most amount of taxpayer money on private interests, it's encouraging to find some public officials who are willing to say NO. A story in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel gives some hope that sane fiscal policy can carry the ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 8, 2007Let the Children Receive TutoringNCLB provision unfairly attacked Filed As: Education (k-12)No Child Left Behind is the law that Left and Right love to hate. One promising provision of the law--free tutoring to poor children in badly performing schools--is under attack from politicians, and scorned by schools. It's a topic that I address in a commentary for the more »»
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Friday, May 4, 2007Tax on Tax?A lesson in the complexity of the tax code Filed As: Budget and TaxThe burden of government can be seen in many ways. One is the simple amount of money that it takes out of an economy via taxes. Another is the maddening complexity that it imposes on people. An article from the newsletter of a chamber of commerce illustrates the complexity (and absurdity) of a tax ... more »»
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Thursday, May 3, 2007Fear Not Genetic TestingNo need for insurance regulation, says CEI Filed As: Health CareDoes the advance of genetic science require government regulation to prohibit "genetic discrimination?" Not so, says the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Gregory Conko and Neil A. Manson offer several points:
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Thursday, May 3, 2007School Vouchers More Common than You ThinkFiled As: Education (k-12), PrivatizationEnablers of the government-school establishment insist that vouchers are dangerous for education. Yet vouchers (or their equivalents) are used all the time, and not merely in the well-known cases of Milwaukee and Cleveland. Writing for the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Patrick B. McGuigan ... more »»
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