Opinion
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Indiana Voucher Program Continues Rapid Growth
Opinion -Preliminary reports indicate almost 30,000 applications were made in Indiana for school vouchers this year. Such vouchers allow low- and middle-income families to use their child’s share of public education funding to send them to private schools. -
Single-Payer Taxes Will Devastate Vermont Economy
Opinion -Early next year, Gov. Shumlin (D) will unveil a long-awaited financing plan for his proposed single-payer health care system. At least, that’s the expectation. -
Swiss Bank Drops Out of IRS Tax Compliance Program
Opinion -A major international bank is ending its cooperation with the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to prevent investors from investing money in foreign countries with more favorable tax structures and policies, such as Ireland and Switzerland. -
Vermont Legislators Question Gruber Work on Single Payer
Opinion -Several Vermont lawmakers expressed early skepticism of Gov. Peter Shumlin’s single-payer financing plan because it relied on economic modeling provided by prominent Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber. -
Congress Pays For Entitlement Expansion With Cut To Penis Pumps
Opinion -The House and Senate are preparing to vote on the “Achieving a Better Life Experience” (ABLE) Act, a bipartisan bill that establishes tax-favored savings accounts for those with disabilities. -
Dear Bill Bennett: Get A Little More Reaganesque On Common Core
Opinion -I’m too young to know if Ronald Reagan’s former Education Secretary Bill Bennett has always been a squish. -
Oklahoma Legislators Take Steps to Cut Administrative Spending
Opinion -It seems like such a simple idea. Oklahoma state Sen. Kyle Loveless wants to reduce administrative spending in schools and increase teacher salaries. -
West Virginia School District Muscles Homeschoolers
Opinion -Homeschooling families in Ritchie County, West Virginia have been subjected to a barrage of phone calls from the local school district intended to convince them to reenroll their children in public schools. Some parents considered the calls harassment. -
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus, and 2014 Is Not the Warmest Year on Record
Opinion -On December 2, 2014, Dr. Roy Spencer posted on the Internet University of Alabama-Huntsville satellite global temperature data for November 2014 of 0.33 degree Centigrade. -
Paying Students for Achievement: Does It Work?
Opinion -Access to money, even play money, becomes increasingly important as students get older and discover that meeting many of their wants requires having money. -
Program Assists Students Who Need a Little Help to Finish College
Opinion -Until only a few years ago, the public was largely unaware a large number of college students fall short of graduation for lack of relatively small amounts of money to pay a final year’s tuition or buy books or even to repair a car in order to get to -
Cost of Prescription Drug Development
Opinion -I did a podcast interview with Yevgeniy Feyman of the Manhattan Institute, which went up on the Heartland site this morning. We discussed a new study showing it costs about $2. -
Harmful Consequences of EU Climate Policy
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #149 The European Union’s (EU) unilateral efforts to tackle climate change have been a disaster for the economy and the region’s people. -
Hawaii State Hospital Ignores Court Order to Maintain Union Job Trust
Opinion -A federal court order is being ignored so union members at the Hawaii State Hospital can manipulate work rules to boost their pay, according to a Hawaii State Senate investigative committee report released in October. -
Missouri Students Forced to Accept Substandard Education
Opinion -In the wake of the tragic death of Michael Brown, Ferguson, Missouri has taken the national stage for all the wrong reasons. Segregation, poverty, police brutality; name the civil rights issue and, rightly or wrongly, Ferguson has become the poster child. -
The Gruberization of Environmental Policies
Opinion -Former White House medical consultant Jonathan Gruber pocketed millions of taxpayer dollars before infamously explaining how ObamaCare was enacted. “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” he said. -
KIPP Plans to Double Enrollment in Los Angeles
Opinion -KIPP schools have a lofty plan for expansion in one major city, doubling enrollment over the next six years. In a plan published in October, KIPP LA announced a goal of operating 20 schools serving 9,000 students by 2020. -
Study: Bad Zoning Policies Lead to Economic Stagnation
Opinion -A team of New York-based researchers has found policies intended to preserve historic neighborhoods resulted in depressed economic activity, as such regulations discourage developers from investing in the communities. -
To Tackle National Debt, Sizing up the Problem is Key Step
Opinion -At some point between Thanksgiving and December 1, the federal government made history, as the value of outstanding U.S. Treasury securities exceeded $18 trillion—that’s an 18 with 12 trailing zeroes. -
The Net Neutrality Hybrid Proposals: They Definitely Are Not Comfortable
Opinion -Let me ask you this: “If a man has one foot in a bucket of boiling water and the other foot in a bucket of ice, do you think that, on average, he would be comfortable?”Answer: Not really. -
Congress Moves to Block EPA’s Land Grab
Opinion -Republican lawmakers are pushing hard to corral President Obama’s rogue Environmental Protection Agency with stringent bills and a blunt warning against finalizing its most dangerous land grab ever, the pending redefinition of “Waters of the United -
Three States Rush to Tie Common Core Testing to Graduation
Opinion -Three states are rushing ahead to integrate Common Core testing into their education systems. New Jersey, Maryland, and Washington state will tie graduation to Common Core tests. -
More Victims of Obamacare
Opinion -It's hard to keep track of all the you-passed-it-so-we-could-see-what's-in-it-and-now-we-see-it-sucks moments that Americans have had since Obamacare passed, but here's another one to add to the list, courtesy of Kaiser Health News:Obamacare 'Glitch' -
Testing May Discourage Parent Involvement, Study Finds
Opinion -Saying there was little research about how extensive testing in education impacted parental attitudes toward education, Jesse Rhodes studied the issue in early 2012.