There Are Better Ways to Insure Kids

  • October 18, 2007

Today, Congress plans to try to override President Bush’s veto of the SCHIP expansion. Yesterday, the Democrat-controlled Pennsylvania House of Representatives spent hours debating a resolution to condemn President Bush’s…

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Expanding SCHIP Will Challenge State Finances

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 16, 2007

Heritage Foundation looks at the effect of the proposed Congressional SCHIP expansion, and offers A State-by-State Analysis of the effect on finances. The SCHIP expansion under consideration would increase…

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The Schip Revelation

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 9, 2007

Wall Street Journal on the absurdity of the debate on SCHIP Expansion: Schip was supposed to help children from low-income families … Schip was created as a…

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Price of Candy is Up!

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 9, 2007

So I went to our office snack tray to buy an afternoon snack and notice that the price had gone up, and there was a note about the price of…

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Bush’s Split Personality

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 24, 2007

Last night’s State of the Union Address showed the two faces of President Bush. On the one hand, his health care proposal, which includes tax benefits for individual…

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Bush’s healthcare plan

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 23, 2007

Overview of President Bush’s healthcare proposals to be unveiled in the State of the Union address tonight.

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Guide to Earmark Reform

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 8, 2007

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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Who “gets stuck in Iraq”?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 3, 2006

Even though I may be the only person in America who believe John Kerry was attempting to call President Bush uneducated and stupid, not our troups (not that calling the…

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Taxes & Economy

Tax Policy Under President Bush

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 15, 2006

An overview of recent tax policy (and unresolved issues) from Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute. He makes the keen observation that the reason the tax cuts have yet…

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