In response to “Congress let us down across the board” [Doran Moreland column in the Aug. 22 Forefront], has the author considered that the sharp divide in Congress might have something to do with the trillions of dollars at stake?
Not only are these “minimum medical loss ratios” destabilizing state insurance markets, thus leaving consumers with fewer choices, but they’re also putting insurance agents out of business.
As lawmakers mull whether the mortgage interest deduction should be on the chopping block to rein in the growing federal deficit or change the federal tax code, U.S. Rep. Dan Burton should be commended.
Peter Rusthoven’s [Aug. 22] column about raising the federal debt limit included a major error worthy of a retraction and an apology.
More than half of all businesses are owned by baby boomers and, while they may be working past age 65, eventually they will retire.
We should decriminalize, tax and regulate marijuana, and focus on treatment and prevention for those with genuine addictions.
Let’s try and leave some mad money in the budget.
Armies of people find themselves lingering on the sidelines.
Exchange rates are determined, at least in theory, by purchasing power parity.
In too many places, government does things the private sector does better and cheaper.
I believe flexible and convenient voting options encourage voter participation, which stimulates turnout.
Satellite voting, a type of “convenience voting,” does not enhance citizen participation and might actually hurt voter turnout.
What Texas shows is that a state offering cheap labor and, less important, weak regulation can attract jobs from other states.
We are witnessing antics from neophyte legislators who prefer symbolism over responsible governance.
It is time we start to look at these issues as a whole: Broken families are costing us dearly in both dollars and struggling lives.
It is easy to focus on the scandals and the politicians who fall gracelessly from grace. But for every one of them, the ones we’d like to forget, there is a Richard Lugar or an Andy Jacobs whose service to this country we should never forget.
Is that our position? Stand there confident that the inscrutable workings of a free market will restore our failing towns? Pretty much.
In these 30-some pages of advertising, there are photographs of 30 different individuals. Not one is African-American.
It might take a big chunk of the 21st century for the state to catch up to the 21st century.
Yes, for me this is personal. My father, Woodrow Sr., died of lung cancer caused by cigarettes. So did his brother Rufus. So did his brother Alphonso. So did his brother Joseph.
