Gaski: Save the SAVE Act, Not the Filibuster
by John F. Gaski, Ph.D. On the prospect of ditching the Senate filibuster in order to pass the SAVE Act, Majority Leader John Thune has been heard to say, “The Democrats may intend to steal the car, but we don’t have to give them the keys.” Translated: Don’t provide future Dems with the filibuster weapon. Read the full article…
The Outstater
Build It and They Will Come A FEW OF US have spent considerable time trying to find a simple illustration of how the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) works. Are they trying to mimic a bank in some sloppy way or a Chamber of Commerce? More specifically, how is it a good idea to leverage government money to Read the full article…
Watts: Book Review
‘Taxes Have Consequences: An Income Tax History of the United States’ by Arthur Laffer, Brian Domitrovic and Jeanne Cairns by Tyler Watts, Ph.D. “Taxes Have Consequences” (THC) is a masterful survey of income taxation in the United States since the ratification of the 16th amendment in 1913. The authors make a com pelling case that Read the full article…
The Outstater
Unstacking Public Education IF YOU DIDN’T already think it a bad idea to allow public-sector workers to hire their own bosses and set their own salaries in a self-serving fiscal doom loop then the headline this week in the Capital Chronicle should have been eye-opening: “Union for ISTA Staff Files Unfair Labor Charges.” Yes, the teachers union’s own employees Read the full article…
Eichenberger: A Bubble-Wrapped Childhood
by Dan Eichenberger, MD, MBA In the past 15 years, rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicidal thoughts among adolescents — especially those born after 1995 — have surged. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt calls this the “Great Rewiring” of childhood: the decline of play-based childhoods and the rise of phone-based ones. The uncomfortable truth is that well-meaning Read the full article…
Franke: Book Review
The Great Crash of 1929 by Mark Franke One of the most fascinating books I read in high school was “The Great Crash: 1929” by John Kenneth Galbraith. I believed what most everyone else did, that the Great Depression was caused by the stock market crash. Galbraith disabused me of such a simplistic explanation. Journalist Read the full article…
