Keating: We Can Cap Deductions but Entitlements Still Vex
by MARYANN O. KEATING, Ph.D. “Can I take a federal tax deduction for mortgage interest?” (Yes.) “For state income and local property taxes?” (Yes.) “How about municipal bond interest?” (That, too.) “On earned income from wages?” (That’s a tax credit, and it depends.) “What about employer-provided health insurance?” (Sure.) “Charitable deductions?” (Yup.) “Dinner out and Read the full article…
The Outstater: Here’s a Really ‘Extreme’ Point of View
“Albert Einstein lived to see moral relativism, to him a disease, become a social pandemic, just as he lived to see his fatal equation bring into existence nuclear warfare. There were times, he said at the end of his life, when he wished he had been a simple watchmaker.” — Paul Johnson in “Modern Times,” Read the full article…
Bohanon: Isn’t the State Supposed to Limit Gambling?
by Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. Apple stockholders have had a hard time in the last few months. The price of a share of Apple stock has declined from $700 in September to around $450 today. This is a 36 percent hit. It is not that Apple has become unprofitable — in fact, Apple’s profits are strong. Read the full article…
Keating: Indexing Economic Freedom
by MARYANN O. KEATING, Ph.D. Economic literacy is increasingly important. Philosophers, linguists and journalists have been conversant with the Gross Domestic Product, the Dow, unemployment statistics and prime interest rates for some time now. Since 1996, however, the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) Index, published jointly by the Fraser and CATO Institutes, is the Read the full article…
Democracy Debate Around Senate President David Long
For release Feb. 20 and thereafter (660 words) by Andrea Neal Senate President David Long says he’s trying to be a leader, not a dictator. That’s why he assigned Senate Bill 230 to the Rules Committee, where it won’t see the light of day. The bill to invalidate ObamaCare is unconstitutional, Long said, and to Read the full article…
Bohanon: ‘We Can’t Go Back, Progressives, But It’s OK’
by Cecil E. Bohanon, Ph.D., and Tyler Watts, Ph.D. Our progressive colleagues have been telling us for years that the 1950s were a horrid time. Racial segregation prevailed and women were repressed; conservative cries for family values are naïve and dangerous. Going back to the ’50s is neither desirable nor possible; you can’t bring back Read the full article…
