Americas small businesses have seen the number of demands placed upon us by regulators at every level of government grow at a rate limited only by ability of various taxing agencies to take our money and turn it against us.

After reading "A Troubling Attitude About Low-Income Parents,"T. Willard Fair's guest column in Wednesday's Sunshine State News, saying Sen. David Simmons had said essentially "poor people make poor parents," I was initially outraged and ready to take the senator to task.

Private companies from around the world are lined up at the starting gate, anxious for the opportunity to move Floridas high-speed rail initiative forward.