Term Limits Op-Ed

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 17, 2007

Rep. Daylin Leach with an editorial on why term limits are a bad idea in the Patriot News. Leach resorts to the standard three part argument – term limits…

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Is Health Spending Out of Control?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 17, 2007

NCPA Analysis of government health spending. Their conclusion is that health care expenditures have risen so dramatically because they are on auto-pilot – i.e. lawmakers don’t need to pass…

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Congressmen warn Governor about Turnpike lease

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 16, 2007

From Capitolwire.com. Having criticized the Governor in my previous post, I will give him praise for dismissing the anti-market rhetoric of two Democratic Congressmen. HARRISBURG (May 16) –…

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Stupid Voters!

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 16, 2007

After defeat of the Act 1 tax shift almost universally (the Patriot News identified only two districts that approved the shift, and one of those by a very tentative…

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RendellCare on Life Support

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 15, 2007

Patriot News on the lack of enthusiasm, and action, on most of Rendell’s health care plan.

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Forces build against leasing turnpike

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 15, 2007

Tom Barnes in the Post-Gazette on the line-up of opposition to a proposed Turnpike Lease – though all the opposition he names are lobbyists hired by the Turnpike Commission…

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SCHIP Crowds out Private Insurance

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 14, 2007

A new CBO report on SCHIP (government-run health insurance for kids, recently expanded in PA under Governor Rendell’s “Cover All Kids”) remarks that government health insurance creates dramatic “crowd…

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Attacking Cyber Schools

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 14, 2007

AP story in PhillyBurbs.com on the attacks on Cyber School funding. There are several highly misleading statements. The article asserts that the school boards association and the teachers’ union…

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School Tax Referendums

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 14, 2007

The Philadelphia Inquirer is the first PA newspaper that I have seen to endorse a “Yes” vote on the Act 1 tax shift (I have seen several endorsing a…

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