FreedomTalks

This is a fun read in The Sun (UK).
“BARMY Euro MPs are demanding new laws to stop cows and sheep PARPING.
Their call came after the UN said livestock emissions were a bigger threat to the planet than transport.
The MEPs have asked the European Commission to “look again at the livestock question in direct connection with […]

The Allentown Morning Call has a piece on the tax and spend politicians in Pennsylvania.

Here is the piece.
Here is an excerpt:
Gov. Ed Rendell’s budget plan, which includes a series of tax hikes to shore up the state budget and expand programs, would continue Pennsylvania’s path from a low-tax to a high-tax state. If his budget […]

A truck accident took out an interstate overpass this weekend, and now California officials want U.S. taxpayers to pay for it out of federal “emergency disaster” funds, according to California Department of Transportation director Will Kempton as quoted in the New York Times. A single-truck accident is hardly a national disaster, no matter how […]

Here is the story.
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Our friends at the Texas Public Policy Foundation has a new podcast out on telecommunications taxes in Texas.
Listen by clicking here!

State Representative Susan Lynn has a great post up on her blog.
Here it is.
Of all the issues large and small one matter seems to be a deal breaker in the question of whether we will have competition among television service providers. Build-out, or forcing a company to build-out service to unprofitable areas, is a point […]

What if Unions controlled class elections?

I just finished an excellent book by Peter Schweizer about Ronald Reagan’s battle with communists from his Hollywood days until the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was an excellent read, and I HIGHLY recommend it to general readers. When your leftist professors tell you that he was a dunce, or that the Soviets were […]

The Wall Street Journal reports:
Still untested in the West, the flat tax has now become the norm in Eastern Europe.
The Czechs are the latest converts with Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek’s announcement last week that the personal income tax rate will fall to a flat 15% next year, replacing progressive rates of 12% to 32%. The […]