According to the Murray County assessor, our 211 acres of farmland is worth $225,100 more than it was a year ago. Not only is that a lot of money, at least for a couple of ink-stained scribblers like my wife…
For Social Security, CPI move is sensible
President Barack Obama created a hullabaloo by including a proposal to index future cost-of-living increases in Social Security benefits to a chained consumer price index rather than the one used over the past 38 years. Many Democrats are beating him…
Politics makes strange taxes
We certainly weave a tangled web when we try to finance pro sports stadiums and universal medical care through public contributions — better known as taxes. In each case, in Minnesota, economists would be quick to critique proposals that seem…
Return to gold standard won’t work for a modern economy
David Stockman, a former congressman from Michigan and the boy-wonder director of the Office of Management and Budget for the first four years of President Ronald Reagan’s administration, kicked up a lot of dust with a recent op-ed in the…