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Competing Questions
Opinion -Final Vote 1A – 38 percent 1B – 35 percent 1C – 27 percent Maine Municipal Association’s Citizen Initiative (1A) The MMA Citizen’s Initiative requires the state to immediately fund 55% of the total K-12 education allocation. -
Learning More about Land Value Taxation
Opinion -Efforts to encourage land value taxation (LVT) are part of a larger movement based on the ideas of American philosopher and economist Henry George (1839-1897). -
Uneducated Youth Threaten America’s Future
Opinion -Despite an increasing awareness that the U.S. -
The Code of Conduct for Gallagher Scholars
Opinion -When they enter the program, each Gallagher Scholar receives a framed version of the Code of Conduct. 1. GOALS: Gallagher Scholars believe in setting goals and working hard to achieve them. 2. -
Making the Ideal Public School the Enemy of Choice
Opinion -Choice With Equity: An Assessment by the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, edited by Paul T. -
Frugal South Carolina Governor Finds State Government a Tough Sell
Opinion -On a recent trip to West Virginia, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (R) decided to save his state a few dollars by booking one hotel room for both him and his press secretary. Problem is, the room had only one bed. -
Comparing the Bush Tax Cut to Lieberman Tax Hike
Opinion -MARRIED TAXPAYERS, FILING JOINTLY Bush Tax Cut Lieberman Tax Hike Adjusted Gross Income Tax Rate Adjusted Gross Income Tax Rate $0 - $14,000 10% $0 - $14,000 10% $14,000 - $56,800 15% $14,000 - $56,800 12. -
New Coalition Fights to End Tax Discrimination against Self-Employed
Opinion -Equity for Our Nation’s Self-Employed, a new coalition of small business trade associations, including the American Farm Bureau Federation, has come together to fight a tax code discrimination that penalizes self-employed Americans. -
States Ranked by Cigarette Tax
Opinion -States Ranked by Cigarette Tax Rank State Tax 1. Washington $1.425 2 New York $1.11 3. Alaska $1.00 3. Hawaii $1.00 3. Maine $1.00 3. Rhode Island $1.00 7. California $0.87 8. New Jersey $0.80 9. Wisconsin $0.77 10. -
America’s Desperate Need for School Vouchers
Opinion -One of the objections frequently raised by voucher opponents is that there aren’t enough seats available in private schools, and so private schools would choose the students, rather than parents choosing the schools. -
Wilmette Smoking Ban Is Bad Policy
Opinion -A hundred years ago Kin Hubbard, a newspaper columnist in Indianapolis, observed that “it ain’t what we do not know that hurts us so much; it is what we know that just ain’t so. -
An Uncomfortable Analysis of the Racial Learning Gap
Opinion -In their new book No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (Simon & Schuster, October 2003; 352 pages, $26. -
Identifying the Real Costs of Public Education
Opinion -Public Education As a Business: Real Costs and Accountability, by Myron Lieberman and Charlene K. Haar (Scarecrow Press, 2003; 232 pages; $32. -
Finding the Way Out of the Telecom Mess
Opinion -The current “telecom mess” is largely the result of federal policy that has misdirected vast amounts of capital and squandered precious technological opportunity. Abandoning this flawed regulatory regime is key to reviving the telecom market. -
Universal Service: Time for Reform
Opinion -WASHINGTON, DC--Millions of Americans benefit from the Universal Service program--a patchwork of policies that helps fund basic and advanced telecommunications services in high-cost urban and rural areas, as well as the ‘schools and libraries’ program. -
Help U.S. Companies Compete Globally with New Tax Code
Opinion -October 10, 2003 The Honorable William Thomas Chairman Committee on Ways and Means United States House of Representatives 1102 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Chairman Thomas: By taxing income earned in other -
History of the FSC Dispute
Opinion -The U.S. first adopted Foreign Sales Corporation (FSC) legislation in 1985 to encourage the export of U.S.-manufactured goods. The legislation provided that certain income earned by a foreign subsidiary of a U.S. -
Will States Tax the Internet?
Opinion -Since November 1, all bets are off concerning the taxing of the Internet. -
Massachusetts Governor Gets Passing Grade
Opinion -Having fended off pressure to raise taxes in the face of a FY 2003 budget shortfall, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is earning good grades. -
The Romney Report Card
Opinion -Neutrality Avoiding taxes and expenditures that distort private choices and discourage economic activity. A- Equity Achieving fairness in taxes and expenditures; secure the social safety net. -
Lagging in Polls, Lieberman Offers Soak the Rich Tax Hike
Opinion -Presidential hopeful Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut) fell into a tie for third place among Democrats running for their party’s Presidential nomination, according to an early fall CNN poll. -
IRS to Step Up Audits and Collections
Opinion -For more than two years, Congress has been asking the Internal Revenue Service to take off the gloves. “Go get the money,” is the clarion call from Washington. -
Badly Designed Programs Will Stymie School Choice
Opinion -A new policy study from the Cato Institute provides policymakers with a practical guide for crafting successful school choice programs—ones that are likely to advance the development of a free market in education and avoid the creation of flawed programs -
While DC Choice Simmers, NCLB Slow to Settle
Opinion -The fate of President George W. Bush’s proposal to bring school choice to District of Columbia parents continued to hang in the balance as this issue went to press in early November.
