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Some Unsoliticed Advice on Tax Reform
One positive aspect of being around a long time is seeing lots of folks whack at the piñata of reform with varying degrees of success. I, too, have taken my swings at the paper mâche donkey and occ...
Apr 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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'Proportional' Response
Since when has it been considered smart to tell your enemies what your plans are? Yet there on the front page of the April 8th New York Times was a story about how unnamed "American officials" were...
Apr 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sequester, who’s to blame: Washington
In August 2011, just like today, there was no shortage of political propaganda. Except back then, both the president and Speaker John Boehner were praising their debt ceiling increase deal. Preside...
Apr 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Problems with Taxing Business Services
The Council on State Taxation (COST) just released a study, “What’s Wrong with Taxing Business Services? Adverse Effects from Existing and Proposed Sales Taxation of Business Investment and Service...
Apr 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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HB 267 meant to unite, not divide
The first thing I did when I read LHSAA Proposition 18 was take football out of the equation. Why just football? I would have reacted the same way if it were any sport, curricular, or non-curricula...
Apr 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Higher Business Taxes are Not the Answer
Quite a few eyebrows raised in the business community recently when Governor Jindal’s Executive Counsel, Tim Barfield, responded to a question about winners and losers under the governor’s tax swap...
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Guns Save Lives
We all know that guns can cost lives because the media repeat this message endlessly, as if we could not figure it out for ourselves. But even someone who reads newspapers regularly and watches nu...
Apr 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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The President’s Column: Endangered Species
This is the story of the lesser prairie chicken and its struggle for survival. Never heard of the lesser prairie chicken?  Neither had I until I came across an obscure news item about the bird’s po...
Mar 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Manufacturers have a growth agenda for the nation
In an ongoing effort to show policy makers the importance of manufacturing to the nation, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) recently released A Growth Agenda: Four Goals for a Manufac...
Mar 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Intellectuals and Race
There are so many fallacies about race that it would be hard to say which is the most ridiculous. However, one fallacy behind many other fallacies is the notion that there is something unusual abou...
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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How to Put Epoxy into the Wheels of Commerce
Folks who are working hard to expand our stagnant economy in the face of government-imposed headwinds had to be upset if they read the March 14 article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek entitled “Obama Wil...
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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The President's Column ~ Budget Battle
There are very few things in Washington one would consider consistent; that is, unless you consider lawmakers’ inability to reach a compromise something you can always count on. As Congress and the...
Mar 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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