Regulation

Historic Vote Huge Step to Liquor Liberty

  • March 21, 2013

Members of the House of Representatives made a historic vote today by passing HB 790, a vote to end the state government’s Prohibition-era liquor system in Pennsylvania. Commonwealth Foundation…

Media

Read More: Historic Vote Huge Step to Liquor Liberty

Regulation

Who Supports Liquor Liberty?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 21, 2013

Today the Pennsylvania House is poised to pass landmark legislation (H.B. 790) to privatize the 80-year-old state store system and end the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s (PLCB) inefficient and antiquated…

Media

Read More: Who Supports Liquor Liberty?

Health Care

Expanding Medicaid: Eat Now, Starve Later

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 20, 2013

When the governor released his budget last month, the loudest opposition hinged on Medicaid - government insurance for the poor and disabled. Advocates of expanding the program via the Affordable…

Commentary

Read More: Expanding Medicaid: Eat Now, Starve Later

Regulation

Mailbag: Booze Q’s

  • Matthew Brouillette, Nathan Benefield
  • March 20, 2013

As legislation to get government out of the booze business is debated in the state House, CF‘s mailbox is overflowing with questions about liquor liberty! You asked, we answered: Q:…

Media

Read More: Mailbag: Booze Q’s

Regulation

What’s in New Liquor Liberty Bill?

  • March 18, 2013

Rep. Mike Turzai’s liquor store privatization bill, HB 790, heads to the House floor after successfully passing amended out of committee today. While the amendment changed the bill significantly, it…

Media

Read More: What’s in New Liquor Liberty Bill?

Regulation

The Sun Rises on Liquor Liberty

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • March 18, 2013

It wasn’t a typical Monday morning for me or the dozen citizen-patriots and CF team members that stood together in an empty hallway, outside a hearing room in the Capitol…

Media

Read More: The Sun Rises on Liquor Liberty

Health Care

Sequester-Sized Savings

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • March 15, 2013

We’ve already busted the myth that federal money for the expansion of Medicaid is somehow “free.” As Nathan Benefield explains, government only distributes what if first taxes out of…

Media

Read More: Sequester-Sized Savings

Taxes & Economy

FrackNation Exposes Gasland Lies

  • Gordon Tomb
  • March 14, 2013

“FrackNation” is not only about the development of natural gas, but also about journalism, says Phelim McAleer, co-director of the 70-minute documentary. Shown this week to about 70…

Media

Read More: FrackNation Exposes Gasland Lies

Public Union Democracy

Goliath, Drunk on Power—and On the Move!

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • March 13, 2013

What does a Middle Eastern battlefield from biblical times have to do with where you buy your booze? Actually, quite a lot. At the Commonwealth Foundation, we call the government…

Media

Read More: Goliath, Drunk on Power—and On the Move!