Today, April 18, 2011, Americans will gather at Tax Day Tea Party rallies around the country. This is good; people need a venue to connect with like-minded citizens to commiserate and cooperate. On this day in 1864, a similar gathering was taking place in Baltimore, and they had the honor to be addressed by President Abraham Lincoln. Read more »
Balanced budgets in local government
This site and this organization are firmly convicted of the superiority of Constitutionally-consistent balanced government: a system of government with a faithful division of powers wherein the domestic affairs of Americans are handled by the units of government closest to them. If the principle of rightly-operating government wasn’t enough, there is a compelling economic basis as well: local governments have to operate under balanced budgets. Read more »
Tax Relief
As the Chicago area braces for a major snowstorm, it is only fitting that we discuss bracing ourselves for a storm of our own making. This storm is more serious than a blizzard, for it has in its character the ability to hamper economic recovery and growth for multiple generations. Taxes, which are a manifestation of how the public views the role and the responsibilities of government, have reached a new “low” by reaching a new high. The time has come to consider radical and permanent changes in how taxes are levied, collected, and the resulting consequences to the operations of government. Read more »
Cause and Effect
The best physicians will utilize every tool they have to assess symptoms and diagnose a patient’s condition. Once you have a correct diagnosis – a valuable thing, not often easily obtained – you can begin treating an illness or injury. Treating symptoms may provide short-term and temporary relief to a patient, but it is not a long-term or sustainable course of action. Read more »
Consequences and irresponsibility
Imbalanced government is just another way of describing our responsibility problem in America. We’ve somehow gotten to a point where there is real confusion about just who is responsible for certain things; regrettably, most often the correct answer – ourselves – isn’t consistent with who is discharging that responsibility. This is the essence of imbalanced government, and how government operates in America: distant external units of government are trying to do things for people that only they can do. Read more »