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Impact of Marketplace Fairness

Taxation is often A if not THE focus for fiscal conservatives.  Taxation occurs at every political level: Local, State, and Federal.  Another equally important focus is a constitutionally limited government.  As such, we would expect to drive taxing decisions closer to the people when possible. Our existing Ohio State tax code declares Sales & Use …

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Illegal Immigration: the Power of Incentives

The stars have aligned once again for Congress to confront America’s illegal immigration problem. An estimated 11 million people are residing in the U.S. without legal status according to the Department of Homeland Security DHS.  Although the number of illegals in the country remains in dispute, the number of Mexicans, in particular, who wish to …

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Freedom in Name Only

The question demands an answer – has America tossed another vestige of freedom on the scrap heap of history.  Watertown, (MA) citizens welcomed armed police and swat teams into their homes during the search for Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.  As the linked video confirms, Boston’s ersatz storm troopers treated homeowners with scant civility.  …

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