Category Archives: Taxation

Principles and Policies Podcast for Saturday 8/15/20- Political Conventions And Unconventional Solutions To “Problem” Candidates

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 8/15/2020- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss what could happen if Joseph Biden turns out to be as seriously ill as the outward signs indicate.

Principles and Policies Podcast for Saturday 7/25/20- Blessing Or Curse?

Principles and Policies Podcast for Saturday 7/25/20- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis talk about the old “proverb” (or is it an old curse) that says “may you live in interesting times.” Well, we are definitely living in interesting times. Do you think it’s a blessing?

Principles and Policies Podcast for Saturday 6/20/20- The Problem With Giving Unlimited Power To Bureaucrats And Technocrats

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 6/20/2020- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze the deeply flawed legacy left by Dr. Amy Acton and reiterate what an incredibly WEIRD choice she was for a supposedly “pro-life” governor upon her recent resignation as the Governor’s special “health advisor.”

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 6/15/2019- Tariffs, Immigration Policy, And Doing The “Impossible”

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 6/15/2019- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis analyze President Trump’s diplomatic coup in getting Mexico to police its own border and help us police ours. We discuss other peripheral but related issues.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 5/18/2019- A Potpourri of Current Events

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 5/18/2019- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss a potpourri of current events issues at the state, federal and world levels effecting all of us.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 12/29/2018- Of Christmas, Veto Overrides, And Fake News

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 12/22/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis expose how desperate the fake news outlets, never-Trump Rino’s, and radicals of all stripes are to torpedo the current President of the United States. We do our best to explain why worldview matters in interpreting the “news” and commentary being manufactured, packaged, and distributed by people with a specific viewpoint and why and how they try to hide their personal biases.

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 12/22/2018- T’was Two Days After Christmas And All Through The House (And Senate)…

…not a creature was stirring except the rats. Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 12/22/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss recent and future doings in both the Ohio state house and Congress. We also talk about the Ohio state house doings will affect the 2020 presidential campaign and what the possible implications are. Watch out for the post-Christmas veto override sessions!

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 1/27/2018- A New “McCarthy Era?”

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 1/27/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis discuss the emergence of a new era of “witch-hunting” in the form of requiring candidates for office to reveal membership in certain “taxpayer rights” organization for purposes of appointing school board members to fill a vacant seat. We also talk about the debacle of a “send-off party” for a Republican legislative staffer in which legislators and other party regulars demonstrated why politics and alcohol don’t mix well in gatherings. We finish up with why much of the current rash of societal problems can be tied to a loss of Christian worldview.

Article links- Neo-McCarthyism in local school board politics

Ohio legislators prove that they are tone-deaf regarding the appropriate behavior towards women

 

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 1/6/2018- What’s Ahead Based On What’s Behind

Principles and Policies Podcast For Saturday 1/6/2018- Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis predict what will happen in 2018 based on what happened in 2017 and before.