Inconvenient Facts About Indiana Tax Revenue
Indiana state and local government collected an average of $3,499 from each man, woman and child in 2010. Some believe this amount too much; others, too little. Regardless, data provided by Indiana University Public Policy Institute indicates that although taxes, like death, are inevitable, the actual amount collected fluctuates and is somewhat resistant to rate Read the full article…
A Sorely Needed Tutorial on Business and Capitalism
For immediate release (633 words) The New York Times reported some uninformed anti-business comments by an Indiana professor of philosophy. “Corporations are a particular threat to truth,” the professor began. ” . . . (Their) threat is most apparent in advertising, which explicitly aims at convincing us to prefer a product regardless of its actual Read the full article…
A Politician Who Hires People With His Own Money
For the use of the membership only (650 words) When our friend Ryan Cummins is in town we always learn something. Cummins, a former Terre Haute councilman, comes to Indianapolis to buy flowers and plants for his family landscaping and garden business. Did you catch that? The man actually makes a payroll. At my foundation’s Read the full article…
Daniels PR Machine Backfires
‘Covering Variable Costs’ in the Daniels Administration (For the membership only, not for publication, quotation or distribution) A friend of mine, a professor, has a fancy way of telling his family that he’s not doing much — “I’m covering variable costs,” he might say from the couch on a Saturday afternoon. He is using the Read the full article…
Property Rights in the Dock: Siwinskis vs. Ogden Dunes
For the use of the membership only (808 words) When the Indiana State Supreme Court behaves as a micro legislature, setting aside Rule of Law to pursue its notion of the sublime, it opens itself to political criticism — and here comes some on the issue of property rights. In a myopic ruling in Siwinski Read the full article…
Were the Founders Soft on Cursive?
For the use of the membership only (687 words) It seemed a harmless enough idea. The copy editor here, Joyce Preest, who holds a graduate degree in communication, wrote a lament about the recent decision by Indiana educators to abandon cursive or so-called “secretary” writing. Her column, published widely, split families right down the Carolingian Read the full article…
