House Already Reforming Itself
The PA House Republicans spent much of the past week discussing how best to enact reform – and deciding their first step would be to create a new caucus…
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Minimum Wage vs. EITC
CBO analysis compares the effect of a minimum wage increase vs. an Earned Income Tax Credit Increase for the poor. They find that while most of the benefits of…
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Foie gras ban in Chicago is flouted
Chicago restuarants serve food in direct violation of a ban on foie gras. While I’ve been much for duck liver, this reassures me that no paternalistic big government will…
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Guide to Earmark Reform
Citizens Against Government Waste offers a guide to earmark reform – both the House plan and President Bush’s proposal fail to meet many of the key elements.
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The revenge of the failures
Bruce N. Shortt on how public agencies are trying to “help” homeschoolers by regulating them.
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Leasing the Turnpike
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial on a turnpike lease: But there’s resistance in the Keystone State where many people think only the government should operate public infrastructure. Is that because it…
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CA to offer tax breaks for health insurance
Governor Schwarzenegger plans to make health coverage more affordable for Californians by making individually purchased plans tax free (the same way employer provide plans are taken from pre-tax income).
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Tax as you go.
Wall Street Journal piece on Nancy Pelosi’s “PayGo” plan, which would prevent tax cuts but wouldn’t restrain spending.
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The Right Minimum Wage: $0
George Will in the Washington Post on why the nostalgia for New Deal era Big Government proposals – such as the minimum wage – are as bad an idea…
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