Heller: Filling a Tax Piggy Bank
by Tom Heller Michael Leppert, a columnist and lecturer at Indiana University, recently shed light on the $5 billion in taxes already paid and collected that the state of Indiana has amassed in a budget reserve fund. That is money now bubbling over 12.5 percent of general-fund spending levels and triggering an automatic refund to Read the full article…
Morris: Picking a Court Nominee
by Leo Morris A presidential candidate promises to put a woman on the Supreme Court. Some idealists say it is identity politics at its worst. But pragmatists know it is a naked political strategy, meant to address weakness in a certain segment of the constituency. Ha, ha, got you. I’m talking not about Joe Biden’s Read the full article…
The Outstater
‘WHEN THE RENT isn’t paid, there’s trouble,” is a line from a Hemingway novel I remember for some reason. Perhaps it is because paying the rent is where the rubber meets the road in our economic system — an ugly absolute unlike the softer irritants of inflation, interest rates, Internet fees, etc. As such, it is the bane of Read the full article…
Franke: So much for ‘Biden the Unifier’
by Mark Franke What a disappointment. I hardly expected Joe Biden suddenly to become a classical liberal dedicated to recognizing natural rights and advancing individual liberty. I did hope, Pollyanna like, that he actually meant what he said in his inaugural address: “Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: Bringing America Read the full article…
The Outstater
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” — Ayn Rand Running Hospitals by Decree THE STATEHOUSE LEADERSHIP has written a letter — sternly worded, mind you —warning Indiana’s health providers, among the most powerful lobbies, that if they don’t lower hospital and medical costs . . . well, something will happen. Senate Read the full article…
Morris: The Law and its Trade-offs
by Leo Morris A criminal whose guilt is obvious gets off on a technicality, and the great debate begins. You’ve undoubtedly heard it, in real life on the news or in detective fiction in print or on the screen. Lock the criminal away despite the technicality, says one side. It’s a perversion of justice to Read the full article…
