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Cash-Hungry States Eye Business Tax Saturday February 17, 1:17 PM EST COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A handful of states are taking a new look at an old, often-criticized business tax to thwart what they say are too many companies avoiding their fair share of taxes. The states also hope to increase revenue to improve schools, create jobs, provide health care for the poor and pay for other essentials of government spending. Kentucky, Texas and Ohio are the latest to adopt versions of the tax on companies' sales or profits, levied at a very low rate meant to apply to as...

The recent flap about tenured University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, the wacky white man pretending to be of American Indian heritage, may not seem to have much in common with federal employees or federal judges. Upon closer examination, we see that all three suffer from the same mindset: Arrogance and insolence as a result of a failed system of lifetime tenure, a system that also guarantees plush retirement benefits. Tenure ensures that professors can never be fired for incompetence, and the retirement benefits ensure that only a few will leave the profession on their own. Not coincidentally, the good...