Columns

Papers on TABOR, Other State and
Local Issues

My monthly Op Ed pieces published in the Oshkosh Northwestern

Apr 2015 --- Dynamic Scoring
Mar 2015 --- A Mere 2.5%
Feb 2015 --- Regulating Big Businesses
Feb 2015 --- Why Tax Cuts Fail 2
Jan 2015 --- Why Tax Cuts Fail

Dec 2014 --- A Christmas Tale
Nov 2014 --- The FFFP Act
Oct 2014 --- On Plagiarism
Sept 2014 --- On Governors and Their Economic Plans
Sept 2014 --- The Thinking Man’s Alternative to the Balanced Budget Amendment
Aug 2014 --- The Unthinking Man’s Solution to the Deficit
July 2014 --- A Silly Liberal Solution
July 2014 --- Why the Job Gap?
June 2014 --- The MacIver Critique
Apr 2014 --- Scott Walker's Job Creation Record
Mar 2014 --- Being Fiscally Irresponsible
Feb 2014 --- Winner Take All Tournaments
Jan 2014 --- Let's Tax Grandma

Dec 2013 --- Should We Raise the Minimum Wage?
Dec 2013 --- Hobby Lobby’s First Amendment Claim
Nov 2013 --- Would a New Casino Create Jobs?
Oct 2013 --- "No Cause for Concern"
Oct 2013 --- T is for Tantrum
Sept 2013 --- Three Lessons from the Great Recession
Jun 2013 --- Are Passenger Trains Right for Wisconsin?
May 2013 --- A Mile In Their Shoes
Apr 2013 --- In Europe
Feb 2013 --- A Missed Opportunity on Public Salaries
Jan 2013 --- Let's Outlaw Semiautomatics

Dec 2012 --- A Chained CPI Just Makes Sense
Nov 2012 --- Anyone up for going over the Fiscal Cliff?
Oct 2012 --- Are you Better Off Now?
Sept 2012 --- "Tax-and-Spend"
Aug 2012 --- Ideology
July 2012 --- How do we get Job Recovery?
July 2012 --- What Creates Jobs?
May 2012 --- Wisconsin Jobs II
May 2012 --- Wisconsin Jobs I
Apr 2012 --- Common Sense and Voter IDs
Mar 2012 --- How "Business Friendly" is Wisconsin?
Feb 2012 --- A Demand Side/Supply Side Experiment

Oct 2011 --- It's time for the Progressive Consumption tax
Sept 2011 --- Turn, turn, turn
Mar 2011 --- Are Teachers Overpaid?
Feb 2011 --- No "we" in Wisconsin
Feb 2011 --- Filling in Wetlands and "Job Creation"
Jan 2011 --- What we're not doing about Schizophrenia

Nov 2010 --- How Safe is the Social Security Trust Fund?
Sept 2010 --- Oshkosh's Closing the Federal Deficit Choices 3
Sept 2010 --- Oshkosh's Closing the Federal Deficit Choices 2
Sept 2010 --- Oshkosh's Closing the Federal Deficit Choices 1
Aug 2010 --- The Illogic of Widening Frankfort
Jul 2010 --- A Closing the Federal Deficit Survey
Jul 2010 --- Choices to Stabilize the Debt.doc
--- or --- Choices to Stabilize the Debt.docx
Jul 2010 --- Reconstructing Frankfort Street
Jun 2010 --- On Big Government
May 2010 --- The Oshkosh Bike Plan
Apr 2010 --- The S&P500 and ObamaCare
Mar 2010 --- The Need for TIF Standards
Mar 2010 --- Is Health Insurance Good?
Feb 2010 --- The Committee of Anonymous Donors and the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Feb 2010 --- The Balanced Budget Task Force
Jan 2010 --- Forget Cap and Trade
Dec 2009 --- The Algebra of Bambicide
Nov 2009 --- On Planned Developments
Oct 2009 --- Do I have a Right Not to Buy Health Insurance?
Sept 2009 --- Health Insurance and Adverse Selection
Aug 2009 --- Is the Stimulus Working?
Jul 2009 --- A Bicycleable Oshkosh
Jun 2009 --- Sustainable State Budgeting
Jun 2009 --- The Use, and Abuse, of Power
May 2009 --- Oshkosh versus Osnabruck
Apr 2009 --- Filling the Empty Council Seat
Apr 2009 --- Who's A Tax and Spender?
Mar 2009 --- Republican Pseudonomics
Feb 2009 -- On State Fiscal Responsibility
Jan 2009 --- The Problem with Federal Debt
Jan 2009 --- The Problem with Personal Debt
Jan 2009 --- The Problem with Speculative Debt
Dec 2008 --- The Least of My Brethren
Nov 2008 -- What is Patriotism?
Oct 2008 --- Big Government
Sept 2008 --- Neighborhood Revitalization
Aug 2008 --- Beautifying Oshkosh
Aug 2008 --- The Price of Gas
Jul 2008 --- Addressing OWIs
Jun 2008 ---A Golf Course Retention Pond
Jun 2008 --- EAA TIF
May 2008 --- Suspending the Federal Gas Tax
May 2008 --- Oshkosh's Second Annual Walk or Bike to Work on Fridays Month
Apr 2008 --- Welcome, Famous People
Mar 2008 --- Are We In A Recession?
Mar 2008 --- 'Tough On Crime'
Feb 2008 --- Free Trade and Peru
Jan 2008 --- Why We Need A Universal, Mandatory Health Insurance System
Dec 2007 --- The Christmas Message
Nov 2007 --- Keep It Simple, School Board
Oct 2007 --- Mayor or City Manager?
Sept 2007 --- Caesar's Wife Needs to Clean Up Her Act
Aug 2007 --- Socialist Economists
Jul 2007 --- On Christianity and Immigration Reform
Jun 2007 --- Do You Need a Larger Convention Center? I Don't
May 2007 --- Oshkosh Walk or Bike to Work on Fridays Month
Apr 2007 --- Let's Get Out of Iraq
Mar 2007 --- Why We Need a Fossil Fuel Tax
Jan 2007 --- On Ending Race Based Affirmative Action

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