March 2016
Sin Taxes and Tax Sins
By Joel McDurmon Perhaps you’ve heard of the latest Federal taxes imposed on tobacco. This unprecedented tax hike funds health insurance for poor children, and also is supposed help deter smoking as a public health measure. Sounds great as marketed to the public, but, as a Christian, I vehemently oppose this nonsense, and I would…
TOWNSHIP TO EXPAND LOSING TRANSPORTATION DEPT
DOUBLE DOWN Success Breeds Success as the overused motivational slogan says. And apparently the Woodlands Township is ready to double down on transportation losses and declining ridership by expanding their transportation brain trust. A Township employment posting here calls for a Director of Transportation and Infrastructure Services. The advertisement explains “the Township is a special purpose…
WOODLANDS EXPRESS TAX DOLLAR BLOWHOLE
If The Woodlands Township has an economics department with its own reality show then this might be the intro, You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land ( The Woodlands ) whose boundaries are that of imagination ( and laws of…
OPEN LETTER TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY GRAND JURY
Time for a Runaway Grand Jury The recent Catherine Dominguez headline tells us most of what we need to know. The investigation into the alleged violations of the Texas Open Meetings Act by commissioners and members of the Texas Patriots PAC has gone nowhere for the six months since special prosecutor Chris Downey was appointed….