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  • Bennett-Burr “Bipartisanship” = Yet Another Federal Power Grab0

    • December 29, 2013

    When politicians start talking about “bi-partisan cooperation,” smart citizens get nervous. It usually means another transfer of freedom and taxes to the federal government at the expense of individuals, families, localities, and states. Case in point: a Denver Post op-ed by two U.S. Senators (or their staffs) on their latest “bipartisan” deal. The Senators are

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  • A Summary of How States Push Back Against Washington0

    • December 28, 2013

    The Cato Institute has published a new paper by Professor John Dinan that summarizes all the credible ways in which  the states can and do push back against Washington, D.C. The only omission to this excellent summary is the states’ amendment powers under the Constitution’s Article V. (Although the states have never forced Congress to

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  • Can Colorado Make K-12 Dollars Clearer?0

    • December 23, 2013

    (H/T Ed News Colorado) Yesterday’s Washington Post posted a story under the headline “Colorado’s Hickenlooper wants to put school budgets online”: “So far, no state’s ever had total transparency on how their tax dollars are spent to every school,” Hickenlooper said in a recent interview. Looking ahead to 2014, it’s encouraging to read about bipartisan […]

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