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HICKS: To tax or spend? That is the question for government
July 14, 2012
Mike HicksThere is a great (and vituperative) disagreement on government’s role in stabilizing a recession.
MoreHICKS: Smart cuts won't hit all government workers
July 7, 2012
Mike HicksFew governments, and none in Indiana, can now afford to continue doing things the private sector does.
MoreHICKS: EU crisis makes bad U.S. job market look good
June 30, 2012
Mike HicksMake no mistake: 150,000 new jobs ain’t good news.
MoreHICKS: Here's hoping for taxes for all Americans in 2013
June 23, 2012
Mike HicksI believe we ought to raise taxes to finally end the soothing falsehoods that surround our tax policy—especially what
are called the Bush tax cuts.
MoreHICKS: Fathers influence the personal discount rate
June 16, 2012
Mike HicksIt is quite easy to do things when young and inexperienced that severely limit one’s long-run options.
MoreHICKS: Failure of public unions is good for country
June 9, 2012
Mike HicksThis week’s recall vote in Wisconsin has been heralded by many observers as a forecast of the presidential election.
I think they are wrong. It is far more consequential.
MoreHICKS: UL model could fix financial regulation morass
June 2, 2012
Mike HicksWe need a compromise that preserves innovation and mitigates the tendency for the sort of moral hazard that fueled the last
recession.
MoreHICKS: Lasting meaningful change requires patience, fortitude
May 26, 2012
Mike HicksThis new birth of freedom is the largest in human history, and only a handful of truly totalitarian states still linger today.
MoreHICKS: Policy choice boils down to austerity or austerity
May 19, 2012
Mike HicksThe plain reality is clear: Austerity is coming to Europe, either as a planned and thoughtful exercise or through fiscal ruin.
MoreHICKS: European recession likely to affect U.S. economy, too
May 12, 2012
Mike HicksAs disparate facts, the economic conditions in Europe and the United States are disconcerting. Taken together, they are frightening.
MoreHICKS: Debate rages on about role of Federal Reserve
May 5, 2012
Mike HicksThe Employment Act of 1946 essentially required the Federal Reserve to do two mutually exclusive things: promote full employment
and keep inflation low.
MoreHICKS: Finding freedom through 'The Hunger Games'
April 28, 2012
Mike HicksWhat has kept me in a three-week state of shock is the message about values our kids are getting from this work.
MoreHICKS: Spending, debt influence long-run growth
April 21, 2012
Mike HicksBut it is only during the depths of this type of recession (perhaps two in a lifetime) that the disagreement among economists
is so sharp.
MoreHICKS: Accounting mistakes and local government reform
April 14, 2012
Mike HicksThe $206 million in late payments is about half the total tax revenue our state’s woefully mismanaged townships kept
sitting in the bank over the past several years.
MoreHICKS: Some types of unemployment signal progress
April 7, 2012
Mike HicksStructural unemployment is a byproduct of healthy technological progress, and those who can learn new skills flourish.
MoreHICKS: The joke's really on us with Social Security
March 31, 2012
Mike HicksIf treated as a financial investment, Social Security is a really effective way to destroy wealth.
MoreHICKS: State smoking ban recognizes value of life
March 24, 2012
Mike HicksThe workplace smoking ban signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels this week was a much-needed law. Of course, my Libertarian friends
will object to its intrusion on liberty, and my leftist friends will say it didn’t go far enough. To them I ask, “What
are you smoking?”
MoreHICKS: Value proposition should drive higher ed debate
March 17, 2012
Mike HicksEven with higher tuition, college students are still flocking to campus. The real problem isn’t increasing costs, but
uncertain benefits.
MoreHICKS: Manufacturing industry is alive and well
March 10, 2012
Mike HicksAmerica has always been a place where we make things. In fact, 2011 was a record year for manufacturing in America, as will
be 2012 and 2013 (all in inflation-adjusted terms).
MoreHICKS: Gas prices likely to influence presidential race
March 3, 2012
Mike HicksLate last month, our president gave what was billed as an important speech about gas prices. It was that and more.
MoreHICKS: Upcoming election to influence corporate tax cuts
February 25, 2012
Mike HicksObama’s plan is to eliminate loopholes for energy companies and create new ones for manufacturing firms. The condition
of the 2012 electoral map should make his motivations clear.
MoreHICKS: Imperfect markets influence economic growth
February 18, 2012
Mike HicksMarkets rule supreme, but they also work imperfectly and will do so as long as humans themselves remain imperfect.
MoreHICKS: It's time for labor unions to make some changes
February 11, 2012
Mike HicksHow is it, I wonder, that an employment contract between willing parties could get to the point where either side is viewed
as an enemy?
MoreHICKS: Field research sheds light on Super Bowl impact
February 4, 2012
Mike HicksMy two sons and I headed to Indianapolis’ Super Bowl Village recently for some field research.
MoreHICKS: State of the Union chock full of wistful visions
January 28, 2012
The bacchanalia of the stimulus has limited spending choices far into the future. So, most of the policies outlined by President
Obama are wistful visions of a future that cannot be.
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These higher rates Co. e about only because physicians are now hospital employees. otherwise physicians couldn't charge these rates and share the windfall with the hospital. Community/rural hospitals probably not buying physicians practices and thus weren't getting the windfall anyway.
The incentive for poor people to get themselves off public assistance and "no longer be poor" is even with help...they're STILL POOR! Being poor, even with some assistance, isn't all that pleasant. (I speak from experience) It's a stubborn myth that poor people, who are on public assistance, are sitting in the lap of luxury. You should try living on just those "freebies" that you mentioned and see how meager they actually are. By the way, I didn't mean you had to buy/own a puppy...just pet one. :)
As near as I can tell the minority has ZERO constitutional obligation to offer a quorum to the majority. A requirement for quorum was inserted into the constitution so that tyrannical majorities could not simply shove through odious and objectionable legislation (which is exactly what they did.) By allowing a tyrannical majority to charge fines against the minority for exercising their constitutional prerogative to deny quorum the court as made a mockery of constitutional governance in the state of Indiana.
The voters elected the Reps to make a vote not walk out on the vote. They had to the right to exercise their opinion and vote "no" to the bill. Let me ask you this if you walked out of your job for 5 straight weeks would you get paid? Would you even have a job to go back to? If any elected official walks out on the people they should be arrested for stealing tax dollars from the public. They were elected to do a job and not leave when the job gets stuff.
I have been to several of their locations in Pennsylvania and always go in for 1 item and leave with a basket full of things. I'm very happy they decided on Indiana, now if only they would put the other store in eastside.