Politics

Much of the time and energy of this legislative session was consumed by the push to raise taxes, even if those taxes were unconstitutional. This…

It was the speech that officially launched a new and dangerous ideology: do whatever it takes to raise taxes — even it it means ignoring…

In last week’s article I described my initial optimism for this year’s legislative session and detailed the opportunities afforded to this year’s legislature. I explained…

Perhaps you read these articles a few months ago and took note of my optimism about this year’s legislative session. As the legislative year progressed,…

As this year’s legislative session drew to a close, legislators commenced a rapid fire process of throwing out various tax increase proposals in an apparent…

As I think back over the recently concluded legislative session, I recall an especially notable moment during one of the frequent tax increase sessions of…

Over the course of the past several months I have written about an array of tax increases attempted by the legislature. As this year’s legislative…

Last week I wrote about two new taxes that were recently approved by the Legislature. Because these new taxes did not meet the requirements of…

For the fourth year in a row it has been my responsibility to vote against the state’s general appropriations proposal, commonly referred to as the…