Fresh off a vote yesterday to increase tolls on Illinois roads by as much as 87.5 percent, state politicians and bureaucrats are proposing yet another “investment” to be borne by recession-weary taxpayers: a series of recharging stations across the state for electric cars. Sounds like another jobs program for the unions.
This proposal comes days after Costco announced that it will remove special charging parking spaces for electric cars because few people use them. Why don’t any of these myriad government proposals ever talk about reductions in spending and reform of Illinois government as usual? We the people certainly need some R&R from this bunch.
About Stan Guthrie
Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His latest book is God's Story in 66 Verses. He also is author of All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century, and A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy. He is co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers.
Stan writes the monthly Priorities colum for BreakPoint.org. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Tell Me More, WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including The Eric Metaxas Show and Moody Radio's New Day Florida. A licensed minister and an inspirational speaker, he served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?
