FreedomTalks

As candidates across the country try to carry favor with voters, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review wants to kick-start the debate for them.
Are the candidates willing to have the debate?  Make sure your candidate is!

Will he or won’t he?
After the U.S. House of Representatives passed Rep. Paul Ryan’s Line Item Veto legislation last week, all eyes turned to the Senate.  And for good reason.
Many of the Senators who voted for the Line Item Veto in 1995/1996 are still around.  Some may even be running for President in 2008.
In one [...]

On March 23, 1995, the U.S. Senate voted on S. 4, the Line Item Veto Act.  As part of the Contract with America, the Line Item Veto was promised and delivered to voters as a way to cull pork and other non-essential spending items from Congressional budgets.
This past Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives showed [...]

From the Janesville Gazette:
[Thumbs up] To the Broadband Deployment Act. Gov. Jim Doyle has signed legislation offering $7.5 million in tax exemptions and credits to companies willing to extend high-speed Internet to rural areas. Republicans, Reps. Brett Davis of Oregon and Phil Montgomery of Ashwaubenon and Sen. Ted Kanavas of Brookfield, co-authored the bill. Without [...]

From the Racine Journal-Times:
Let free market handle Internet
I am writing in response to the article that ran in Tuesday’s Journal Times under the headline “Ryan, House majority vote against `net neutrality.’ “  The term “net neutrality” sounds great, but when you look at what internet powerhouses such as Microsoft and Google mean by the phrase, [...]

Paul Ryan is going to try.
From the Racine Journal-Times: 
“The chairmanship would be a big step for the four-term congressman, who would run against two more senior representatives if all three are re-elected in November and Republicans retain control of the House.
But it’s also not out of the question. Ryan, 36, is regarded as a fiscal [...]

From Charlie Sykes’ website, radio talker in Milwaukee:
TAX POEM
As legislators debate how to gut the Taxpayer Protection Act, this poem is floating around the internet (author unknown):
TAX POEM
Tax his land, tax his wage,
Tax his bed in which he lays.
Tax his tractor, tax his mule,
Teach him taxes are the rule.
Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Tax [...]

This past fall, Colorado voters went to the polls and approved a measure that suspended $4 billion worth of tax refunds under their Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. That measure – Referendum C (and its borrowing mechanism, Referendum D) – was sold to voters as a way to jump start Colorado’s economy as it turned [...]

From today’s Opinion Journal:
The product-liability veto, though, caused the most consternation in business circles. It started with the case of J. Steven Thomas, who claimed to have eaten paint chips containing lead pigment in the early 1990s. At that time, he lived in rental housing built in the early 1900s, when the use of lead-based [...]

Great post from Paul Noonan:
“Last weekend I saw Milton Friedman on Charlie Rose’s show, and they got to talking about school voucher programs. During the course of the interview, Friedman made the following analogy. Imagine that your goal is to feed poor people. Do you create a program that gives vouchers to poor people that [...]