Taxes & Economy

A Corporate Tax Cut Benefits All

• Nathan Benefield
• June 5, 2008

Greg Mankiw has a great opinion piece in the NY Times on the benefits of reducing the corporate income tax: In fact, a corporate rate cut would…

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Taxes & Economy

Federal Taxes and Household Income

• Nathan Benefield
• May 26, 2008

The Congressional Budget Office has a new data page which shows the distribution of federal income taxes. Hat Tip to Government Bytes.

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Taxes & Economy

Big Oil vs. Big Ethanol

• Nathan Benefield
• April 7, 2008

Everyone in Pennsylvania (save the Amish, who are also unlikely to be reading this blog) must have heard or seen the Barack Obama, anti-“Big Oil” ad dozens of…

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Republicans Radical on Health Care?

• Nathan Benefield
• November 9, 2007

Ramesh Ponnuru writes in Time Magazine that Republicans running for president have proposed more radical reforms in health care–seeking to tranform the system, rather than just preserve and extend…

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Taxes & Economy

Minimum Wage COLAs: Overstated Benefits & Hidden Costs

• Nathan Benefield
• August 22, 2007

Support for minimum wage increases is based on the idea that a higher minimum wage will “help the poor” by increasing their pay and lifting them out of poverty.

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More on SCHIP

• Nathan Benefield
• June 26, 2007

After noting yesterday that Governor Rendell demanded more federal SCHIP money to fund his “Cover All Kids” initiative, I saw this recent Heritage Foundation WebMemo summarizing research that…

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The Poor Get Richer

• Nathan Benefield
• May 23, 2007

Wall Street Journal on the growth in earnings and income of low-income families with children from 1991-2005. The CBO report identifies a few reasons for this, including: job…

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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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