Opinion Archive

Obama's 'Robin Hood' tax plan is pure, unadulterated socialism
Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008, 12:30 a.m. -- The Obama tax plan is pure Robin Hood class warfare: Use the tax power of the state to rob the successful and reward the faithful. Only in Sherwood Forest it was assumed the sheriff of Nottingham and his crowd had garnered their wealth by other than honest labor. Click here for more of this column by syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan.

Big Labor, liberal causes take on Wal-Mart with legislative agenda in Frankfort
On the heels of similar legislation passed last week in Maryland, the Kentucky General Assembly will this session consider a similar bill that will require retail giant Wal-Mart to spend more on employee's healthcare plans, or pay into a state Medicaid fund.

If you scratch below the surface just a bit, you'll find that this isn't a case of legislation to right a wrong, but legislation pushed by a national organizations trying to advance their own liberal agendas.