Stop being tax chumps — switch to consumption-based taxation
Are you getting a tax refund this year? Actually, nobody is, since a refund is what you get when a product or service does not work as promised.
How safe are Colorado’s public schools?
Parents reply upon the School Accountability Reports to tell them but those reports may not be reliable. Jon Caldara and Pam Benigno Director of the Education Policy Center discuss school safety.
Throwing Away Money
After several decades of an ambitious incarceration campaign, Colorado’s booming prison population has run headlong into the fact that the state can spend only so much on corrections.
Simply put, Colorado faces a prison spending meltdown. This leaves taxpayers with the option of either paying for a hugely expensive long-term prison expansion project, or demanding that lawmakers make sentencing changes to slow the growth of the prison population a main public policy goal.
Controversial Issues: They Belong in the Classroom
The recent national attention given to a classroom recording of Colorado teacher Jay Bennish reinforces the need for school districts to implement a controversial issues curriculum. Controversial issues are not to be avoided but to be embraced, if done properly. To ensure objectivity and balance, the author proposes teachers engage students with a seven-step analytical process known as Issues Analysis. The author further advises that schools use an “opt-in” communication to persuade parents of the importance of student participation in the Issues Analysis process.
Colorado’s silly seat belt bill
In the book “Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything,” author James V. DeLong writes, “When the government criminalizes almost everything, it also trivializes the very concept of criminality.”
