Rhode Island Becomes Fourth State to Enact Corporate Tax Credits for Donations to Scholarship Organizations
The Rhode Island General Assembly passes and Governor Donald Carcieri signs into law Tax Credits for Contributions to Scholarship Organizations.
Federalism up in smoke
House Republicans will soon get a chance to cast a vote in favor of states’ rights, and against an over-reaching federal regulatory apparatus. In other words, two of the main principles Republicans claim to champion. That the issue at hand is medical marijuana, and Colorado has a voter-approved medical marijuana law, makes it all the more powerful an indicator of what Colorado Republicans really think about federalism.
Radical departure from traditional drug war orthodoxy
House Bill 1145, signed into law last month, creates but does not fund a state methamphetamine task force in Colorado.
Unfortunately, the bill also ensures a continuation of the currently failed drug war strategy of trying to arrest and incarcerate away the drug issue.
