Taxing the Poor: What’s Missing on Your Pay Stub
For release noon April 14 and thereafter (557 words)Just in time for April 1st and April 15th, let’s talk about taxes. On April 1st, the excise tax on cigarettes was increased dramatically — from 39 cents to $1.01 per pack. It’s fitting that this occurred on April Fools’ Day since it served to break Barack Read the full article…
Five Good Reasons to Be Mad About Taxes
For release April 15 and thereafter (680 words) In honor of the annual agony we call Tax Day, citizens will gather across Indiana today (April 15) to protest taxes. On the one hand, Tax Day Tea Party is something of a publicity stunt with groups planning to throw tea bags into rivers, prompting environmental concerns Read the full article…
Boosterish Indy Media Let Readers Down on Sports Financing
For release noon April 7 and thereafter (733 words)The Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board (CIB) realized a few months ago that operation of its new Colts football field would run an estimated additional $10 million annually. Now we hear another shoe drop — an extra $10 million for the field itself. Considering this and other CIB Read the full article…
Lawmakers to Higher Ed: ‘Just Say No’
For release April 1 and thereafter (680 words)Enough already. That’s the message lawmakers need to send Indiana’s public universities that have come to the legislature yet again seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in new capital projects. Enough of the multi-million dollar remodeling jobs that commit citizens to paying debt service for decades. Enough of Read the full article…
‘Stimulus’ Is Anything but Manna From Heaven
For release March 25 and thereafter (685 words) Media reports on the Obama stimulus package have been euphoric, to say the least. Sometimes I think I’m reading and hearing about an economic miracle of epic proportions — you know, something akin to the manna that God provided the Israelites during their 40-year journey to the Read the full article…
Indiana Lags in Government Transparency Efforts
For release March 18 and thereafter (670 words)You can find almost anything on the Internet these days, but in Indiana you won’t find on government websites such useful information as political campaign contributions, disciplinary actions against doctors and lawyers, environmental citations or a thorough accounting of state agency expenditures. Yet all those records are available Read the full article…
