Kudos to the governor of our great state of Indiana, Mitch Daniels. One would think Daniels would have made a good governor and a good replacement for Kernan. He'd been a strong OMB Director in the Bush White House, but there were tags that he was a "moderate" Republican. Moderate in newspeak means he's ok with raising taxes on whomever he thinks he can get away with raising them on, it would seem.

Recently, my county passed, as most did, his proposed 1% tax hike to the restaurant tax, in exchange for a 50% kickback from the tax for their own growing developmental needs. In non-governmental sectors, you usually find such deals in the murky areas of organized crime (Charge your patrons a little extra and we'll cut you in for a percentage). The beauty of it all is that of course he knew the county's would vote for such a tax, knowing full well no one is going to turn down what to them is "guilt-free" money. If their constituents complain regarding the heightened tax, they can just blame the state, which doesn't really care anyway.

This of course was all for benefit of the renovation of the Indiana Convention Center and the construction of a new football stadium. I'm still unsure when it became the business of the people to f und fields for spoiled millionares to play on. This to me is one of the grandest, and most expensive forms of corporate welfare in existence. Perhaps I missed the Federalist paper that ended "Go Colts!".

Isn't it extraordinary, in a time where our governments are dominated by so many in the Republican party, that you can still find ill-advised, poorly supported, unnecessary tax hikes and out of control spending. Where's that party of limited government again?