And now a message from the Obama Administration Peanut Gallery:
“In the long run we can’t continue to spend as if deficits don’t have consequences, as if waste doesn’t matter, as if the hard earned tax dollars of the American people can be treated like monopoly money, that’s what we’ve seen [...]
The proposed constitutional amendment to cap current state spending based on past revenues is flawed on multiple levels. First and foremost, it would ensure that all general fund budget deficits in the current biennium would have to be addressed through spending cuts; revenue increases would be off the table, [...]
As I was digging in for a long bout of reporting to dig into some of the numbers behind Tony Kennedy's piece in the Strib last week, I noticed that David Brauer at the MinnPost had already done the job. Read the whole thing; it finds, as I've always' [...]
I gave this post a provocative title so I’d get your attention. This isn’t a dissertation on death panels. Rather, it’s a look at the consequences of upcoming federal restrictions on health care. Thanks to Nat Hentoff’s article, we now know that the system being proposed has amajor flaw [...]
I gave this post a provocative title so I'd get your attention. This isn't a dissertation on death panels. Rather, it's a look at the consequences of upcoming federal restrictions on health care. Thanks to Nat Hentoff's article, we now know that the system being proposed has amajor flaw [...]
Tony Kennedy, writing in the Strib last week, addresses the latest charter school "crisis":
Minnesota's charter school movement, which sparked a national rethinking of public schooling nearly two decades ago, has been infected by an out-of-control financing system fueled by junk bonds, insider fees and lax oversight.
"Out of control".
Interesting bit [...]
One of the basic rules one must always follow when dealing with government is this: anything government does, for whatever reason, will have unintended consequences. These consequences will pretty much always be as bad as or worse than whatever problem the original action was supposed to rectify.
When Minnesota legalized “charter [...]
St. Paul, Minn. — A Minnesota Public Radio News analysis finds that more than a third of the school districts in the state have been forced to [...]
