Don’t talk about religion?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 10, 2007

John Baer in the Daily News writes that the public should not care about a presidential candidate’s (Romney specifically) religion (Mormonism). But it writing this, Baer doesn’t argue that…

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The Schip Revelation

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 9, 2007

Wall Street Journal on the absurdity of the debate on SCHIP Expansion: Schip was supposed to help children from low-income families … Schip was created as a…

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Economics of Sports Stadiums

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 9, 2007

Brief assessment of the merits of taxpayer subsidies of stadiums, with some link,. from the The Tax Foundation Blog. In other words, the Pittsburgh Penguins arena deal won’t…

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Clamor for more taxes and spending

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 9, 2007

Reading Eagle editorial repreats many of the Wrong Lessons of the Minnesota bridge collapse – namely that the problem is a lack of funding and taxes for transportation.

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Another distortion of charter schools’ “Cost”

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 9, 2007

Jim McCaffrey’s article in the Evening Bulletin continues the assault that charter schools “cost too much”. Yet this is a distortion of the truth. School districts continue to complain…

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Let Wisconsin Experiment with Socialized Medicine

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 8, 2007

John Stossel supports Wisconsin’s $15 billion socialized medicine plan. He thinks by screwing up health care badly enough – apparently we didn’t learn that lesson the Soviet Union, not…

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Has Wal-Mart buried ‘Mom & Pop’ stores?

  • August 8, 2007

Many political and court decisions have been made based on the argument that traditional small businesses must be saved from Wal-Mart’s ever-increasing presence around the country. This movement has successfully…

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