Huston: Automatic Tax Increases
I SUPPORTED the legislature enacting a multi-year program for constructing and maintaining our roadways and bridges, public infrastructure which is necessary to economic growth and public convenience. So far, no big deal, but unlike my friends at Indiana Policy Review, I also supported raising the revenue to pay for these improvements through rational and measured Read the full article…
The Outstater: Hooray for the Half-Bad
We learned this legislative session that somewhere in his political career the governor confused fiscal policy with economic policy. Let us hope that our children and grandchildren will not have to pay for the mix-up by having to go elsewhere to find a decent job. Fiscal policy is the use of government revenue collection (mainly Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: ‘I Am an American’ — Sort of
EACH YEAR the suits in the window offices of the corporate media think up socially aggrandizing projects to justify annual bonuses. It is a gruesome ordeal for all involved. The reporters take the brunt of it. They are sent on bizarre assignments, the points of which are known only to the senior editors who wrote up the formal Read the full article…
Op-Ed: Pacer ‘Success’ Needs Qualification
by Fred McCarthy One hundred sixty million dollars — that’s how much the Capital Improvement Board (CIB) three years ago agreed to hand the Pacers basketball team over a period of 10 years, supposedly for operation and maintenance of the field house. There are still seven years to go on that bounty. Just last year, Read the full article…
The Outstater: The End of the ‘Creative Class’
by Craig Ladwig In public policy, progressives don’t progress. They stick closely to the revelations of late-night bull sessions in the honors dorm — sophomoric dreams of leveling outcomes, commanding economic development and spreading beauty and light everywhere. The media culture gives us a window into this world through its selection of headlines and guest columns. Telltale signs are Read the full article…
Op-Ed: A Better Way to Set Election Districts
by Cmdr. John Pickerill After the next census in 2020 the Indiana General Assembly will once again take on the task of redrawing the state’s election districts. Because Republicans hold a super-majority in both the House and Senate in Indianapolis, there is concern they’ll game the system and draw the lines to defend their super-majority Read the full article…
