We can only hope:
Has the federal government's appetite for ethanol ended? A bipartisan group of Senators signed a letter today calling for an end to subsidies and tariffs designed to protect and enhance domestic production of ethanol, which has been until recently the darling of the alternative-energy movement.
Some things just aren't meant to be. This might be one of them:
The Alliance of Responsible Alcohol Retailers today is resuming a campaign to change Indiana law so retailers can sell alcohol on Sunday and to expand cold beer sales beyond liquor stores.
Talk about the lame leading the halt:
President Jimmy Carter discussed foreign policy issues Tuesday with President Barack Obama's national security adviser, the Associated Press reported.
National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said Carter talked with Tom Donilon about several policy matter.
Maybe I shouldn't be so snippy. They did both win a Nobel Peace Prize, after all.
Good luck with that:
A law on the books since 1969 requires Hoosiers to pay a use tax, which essentially is a state tax for any purchase where Indiana sales tax is not collected. Online retailers that do not have a physical presence in the state are not required to charge sales tax.
So Hoosiers who buy merchandise and aren't charged a tax must report that on their spring tax returns.
Juxtaposition of the day. From a California case:
A majority of the Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed prepared to uphold a court order that California reduce the population of its overcrowded prisons by more than 40,000 inmates, despite dire warnings that "people are going to die on the streets of California" if the release is approved.
As a commenter on another post noted, eight Republican senators, including Indiana's own Richard Lugar, joined most Democrats in voting down a plan to put a two-year moratorium on earmarks:
Udall, one of the proposal's co-sponsors, expressed disappointment with the vote and vowed to continue to fight earmarking.
Mike Pence, in giving up his House leadership role, made it obvious he was going to run for something. Now, it seems clear he is more interested in the White House than the governor's office. And in a major speech in Michigan, he gave signs of the economic themes that will likely inform his candidacy:
He outlined his economic vision, saying the U.S. needs to implement a flat tax, a spending limit amendment to the Constitution and other reforms designed to put the country's “fiscal house in order.”
The more the merrier:
Fort Wayne City Councilwoman Liz Brown will run for Fort Wayne mayor in 2011.
A well-informed and reliable source told NewsChannel 15 Monday evening that Brown's formal announcement will come Thursday at noon at Allen County Republican Headquarters.
Awwww. President Obama has announced a two-year pay freeze for federal workers, which would save $5 billion in two years and $28 billion in five. The poor babies aren't happy:
Since World War II, despite 30 major changes in the tax code, federal revenue as a percentage of GDP has hardly ever budged from just under 19 percent -- that's all the government can raise, period:
