John LaPlante
Monday, March 5, 2007Welfare for ArtistsFiled As: Budget and TaxThe Baltimore Sun reports on a move in the city to promote welfare, call it mandated employment if you will, for artists. "City officials hope to add to the conspicuous and sometimes not-so-conspicuous structures with a proposal that would require all publicly funded city construction projects ... more »»
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Monday, March 5, 2007Let's Be Transparent About Health Care SpendingFiled As: Health CareFamilies USA, a group that advocates for government-run health care, has released a new study on the costs and medical problems of the uninsured. The lead paragraph of a USA Today article on the subject is stark: ... more »»
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Friday, March 2, 2007Ed Establishment to Utah Children: No Vouchers for You!Filed As: Education (k-12)Well, that didn't take long. Less than a month after Utah enacts a universal school voucher plan, the reactionaries of the status quo interests strike back. The following note comes from the more »»
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Friday, March 2, 2007Public Pensions Present a PickleFiled As: Budget and TaxIt's a classic problem in public choice: should a politician do what's right in the long run but costly now, or do what is expedient and get the applause from a vocal minority? While some wags dismiss USA Today as the "McPaper," its longer reports can be rather good. Such was the ... more »»
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Thursday, March 1, 2007A Novel Transportation Plan: Pay People to Stay HomeFiled As: TransportationWhen I read the headline "Cities afraid of death by congestion" in today's USA Today, I feared another anti-auto article. The article does contain a quote from a representative of the Surface ... more »»
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007Pension Plan BluesFiled As: Budget and TaxLike credit card interest on purchase made long ago, unfunded pension liabilities for government employees will haunt taxpayers for years to come. Politicians find it easy to gain favor with public employees by promising plump retirement benefits. The benefits are real compensation for employees, ... more »»
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007Let's Expand Medicaid? Let's NotFiled As: Health CareOne of the more useless proposals for health care reform is to fold everyone into Medicaid. (Though far-fetched, states have been moving in this direction by continually raising the income limits for participation.) The idea is useless because the problems of Medicaid are well known. more »»
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007Retrogression in TaxesFiled As: Budget and TaxA tax should be fair, easy to understand, and not be prone to boom-and-bust cycles. So why is the gross receipts tax making a comeback in the states?The gross receipts tax (GRT) goes by various names. In its various forms, the tax is applied to a businesses' revenue rather than its profits. ... more »»
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Monday, February 26, 2007Two out of Three Will Need Long-Term CareFiled As: Health CareAging happens to all of us, and two out of three people turning 65 will need long-term care at some point. Will you be ready? Steven Moses, of the Center for Long-Term Care Reform, Inc. points us to a recent article on the subject in the more »»
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Monday, February 26, 2007RomneyCare Soon to be in Hospice?Filed As: Health Care" When then-Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, introduced a universal health-insurance plan in the Bay State early last year, it was widely acclaimed. But less than a year after passage, RomneyCare is in the intensive care unit, soon to be wheeled into hospice." That's how Sally Pipes, ... more »»
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