Regulation

Just Say No To Corporate Welfare

  • December 4, 2018

“We prefer the term ‘corporate welfare.’” Elizabeth Stelle, CF’s Director of Policy Analysis, recently appeared on the KD/PG Sunday Edition to discuss the GM bailout, Amazon’s HQ2 forgoing Pennsylvania, and…

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Government Accountability

Majority of Union Members are now Government Employees

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 13, 2009

The Heritage Foundation points out an interesting fact – 51% of union members are government workers, according to the most recent data, an all-time high. And I assumed General…

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Health Care

Whoops, We Were Wrong…

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 9, 2009

One of our goals at the Commonwealth Foundation is to predict the effect of proposed public policies.  Most of the time, we are proven correct, and humbly announce, "We told…

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Can We Sell our GM Shares?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 15, 2009

Imagine if I told you that my stockbroker told me I should invest in a failing company, and I told him not to.  My stockbroker then invested in the company…

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Taxes & Economy

Will Government Motors be a Partisan Operation?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 28, 2009

With the federal government taking control over Chrysler and GM, ill-conceived ideas are sure to ensue.   The planned restructuring of GM (soon be renamed Government Motors?) is one…

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Some Perspectives on Obama’s 100 Days

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 29, 2009

Reason Magazine sums up the “change” of the Obama administration:  On the economy, and specifically on the economic crisis, Obama came to office promising a…

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Taxes & Economy

Buchanan: GOP should embrace xenophobia, not economics

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 16, 2008

Pat Buchanan on Townhall.com calls for an automakers bailout based on xenophobia and on repeating the mistakes of the past, rather than sound economic policy. Is…

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Taxes & Economy

Latest on automakers bailout

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 19, 2008

The Center for Fiscal Accountability has a letter opposing a bailout of automakers, joining NTU, which sent out their own letter. Alan Reynolds poses the question of…

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Taxes & Economy

No UAW Bailout

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 17, 2008

IBD Editorials writes that a bailout of the automakers is a misguided idea, aimed only at protecting their current union contracts (which are largely to blame for their…

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