Kentucky Public Pensions Task Force will be held at 1 p.m. in Room 149 of the state Capitol Annex. A series of reports by the Bluegrass Institute entitled Future Shock have highlighted Kentucky’s dire crisis in its public pension system, which has an unfunded liability of more than $33 billion. The choices for solving this problem are…
‘Stop Obamacare Rally’ will be held on the front steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. This event will protest the federal government’s regulatory overreach as contained in its Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law on March 23, 2010, and includes an individual…
(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) – The Bluegrass Institute’s 1792-Never out of date radio membership drive is underway. “This campaign will allow individual Kentuckians concerned about the direction of our commonwealth and country to support the Bluegrass Institute and its mission of free markets, individual liberty and transparent government,” said Jim Waters, acting president of the Bluegrass Institute,…
84WHAS talk-show host Mandy Connell helps kick off the Bluegrass Institute’s membership drive (LOUISVILLE, Ky.) – Lawrence Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education – one of America’s oldest free-market organizations – will be the keynote speaker at a Bluegrass Institute dinner on Monday, Aug. 13, at 6 p.m. at Vincenzo’s Restaurant, 150 South…
A video message from Bluegrass Institute president Jim Waters about the disastrous economic impact of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) on Kentucky.
(BOWLING GREEN, Ky.) – Today’s Supreme Court ruling upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) – President’s Obama’s health care law – could exacerbate the nation’s health-care woes by offering a “spate of bad incentives,” said University of Kentucky economist John Garen, Ph.D., who also chairs the Bluegrass Institute Board of Scholars. Garen…
How much can one vote cost? One way to find out is to examine how a single vote by politicians to change their pension formulas in 2005 is costing taxpayers big-time in 2012.
Did you miss Jim on the WHAS with Mandy Connell Monday? You can listen to the podcast!
Jim Waters will be one of many speakers tonight at a Louisville Tea Party rally. Other notable speakers include WHAS’ Mandy Connell, Senator Rand Paul, Phil Moffett, and keynote speaker Kevin Jackson. “Now More Than Ever Rally” Thursday, April 19th, 6-8pm The Grand Belle Room Ramada Plaza Hurstbourne
By D. Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. Today, April 15, is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Of course, April 15 is more famous as the deadline for submitting our income tax forms. But it falls on a weekend this year, so procrastinators get a brief reprieve. The Titanic was sunk by an iceberg.…