Quick Hit: Better Ideas than Raising the Minimum Wage
Here are some ways to separate people by motive, knowledge and creativity on the issue of the minimum wage: Offer to reduce or eliminate the 15.3 percent FICA taxes on every dollar of income earned by the working poor (no exemptions/no deductions like the “income tax” gets); Offer wage subsidies for low-paid heads of household Read the full article…
Quick Hit: We’ve Forgotten What Exercised Mr. Revere
The American War of Independence was fought “by British Americans against a German King for British ideals.” — Lady Astor Other than the fact that the first American settlements wouldn’t have survived had they not abandoned that picture-perfect “sharing” Thanksgiving for a less dramatic year-round market-based economy, America’s defining historical moment may be Paul Revere’s Read the full article…
Quick Hit: ‘What’s the Purpose of Education, Really?’
The State Board of Education is knee-deep in a strategic-planning process intended to better define the state’s vision for Indiana schools. It should come as no surprise that board members disagree on the most basic of questions: What is the purpose of K-12 education? It is an essential question that must be answered before, not Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (17): The Harmonists near Evansville
by Andrea Neal For one shining moment in the early 19th century, a group called the Harmonists achieved utopia on the Wabash River. Two hundred years later, their experiment continues to inspire visitors to New Harmony, Indiana. Founded in 1814 by 800 German Pietists and carefully ordered by their leader George Rapp, the town of Read the full article…
The Indiana GOP: Catching a Slippery Pig
“The 17 percent of voters (both Republican and Democrat) who now say most of Congress deserves re-election is well below the roughly 40 percent threshold that has historically been associated with major electoral turnover. With this in mind, Congress could be in for a major shake-up.” — Gallup’s annual Mood of the Nation poll, conducted Read the full article…
Huston: Religious Liberty and the Public Peace
(For the use of the membership only.) by Tom Charles Huston A few weeks before the delegates to the Continental Congress resolved for independence, the Fifth Virginia Convention meeting in Williamsburg adopted a Declaration of Rights drafted in large part by George Mason. It was one of a number of pre-Revolutionary documents marking the advance Read the full article…
