Affordable Health Care Agenda

• Nathan Benefield
• July 24, 2007

As the lead article on our website indicates, the Commonwealth Foundation has joined with over two dozen organizations to form the Health Care Freedom Coalition. Most…

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National Health Care? We’re Halfway There

• Nathan Benefield
• December 5, 2006

New York Times article highlights that fact that almost half of all Americans are covered by government health care (through Medicare, Medicaid and related program, and government employee’s health…

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Increasing Dependence on Government

• Nathan Benefield
• December 4, 2006

In a new report, the 2006 Index of Dependency, the Heritage Foundation concludes that Americans are growing increasingly dependent on government in the areas of housing, health care, education,…

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Taxes & Economy

Economic Benefit of Wal-Mart

• Nathan Benefield
• August 30, 2006

Op-Ed by Robert Samuleson in today’s Washington Post on how Wal-Mart’s low-price policies benefit all Americans – doing a much better job controlling inflation than the Federal Reserve. “A…

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Taxes & Economy

More Vinsanity

• Nathan Benefield
• July 25, 2006

A press release from Senator Vince Fumo’s office dismisses any notion that Pennsylvania business taxes are too high, citing select data showing Pennsylvania has merely a mediocre economic record…

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A chat with Heritage Foundation’s Chief

• March 11, 2006

Americans can make a difference…

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Education

A government big enough to give you everything you want …

• Nathan Benefield
• January 25, 2006

There is a theory (articulate in a piece by Mark Bauerlein) that left-wing academics are engrossed in large scale group think, that when large numbers of the radical left…

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Taxes & Economy

From Hopeless to Hopeful

• November 30, 2005

On November 16, the legislators handed Gov. Rendell a bill to repeal the General Assembly’s July 7 pay and pension grab. The Governor promptly signed the measure without fanfare. Only…

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Taxes & Economy

Private Property & Liberty

• Matthew Brouillette
• November 22, 2005

Good afternoon. My name is Matt Brouillette, and I am president & CEO of the Commonwealth Foundation, a public policy research and educational institute based in Harrisburg. We develop and…

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