Survey of Attitudes on Taxes

• Nathan Benefield
• April 12, 2007

The Tax Foundation’s latest survey of attitudes towards taxes came out today. The results will shock you. The number of people saying taxes are “too low” doubled since last…

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Are we all “supply-siders” now?

• Nathan Benefield
• April 9, 2007

I saw this Bruce Barltett editorial in the NY Times over the weekend. Bartlett makes the intriguing argument that politicians no longer need to claim to believe in “supply-side”…

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RomneyCare falls down slippery slope

• Nathan Benefield
• March 21, 2007

New York Times reports on the how RomneyCare (as Massachusetts’ universal health care plan is known) continues to be worse than advertised. The board of the “Connector” which was…

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Walter Reed and Universal Health Care

• Nathan Benefield
• March 11, 2007

Greg Mankiw blogs on a satire piece in which Hillary Clinton calls for Universal Healthcare based on the Walter Reed scandal: “Just think how bad it would be if…

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Does the U.S. Spend More?

• February 20, 2007

A new report from McKinsey claims that the United States spends $477billion a year – $1,645 per person – more on health care than otherOECD countries do, after…

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McCain: Defeat Was Payback for Losing ‘Our Principles’

• Nathan Benefield
• November 17, 2006

From the New York Times. McCain hits all the ways conservatives looked to big government – spending increases, new entitlement programs, trying to bribe voters with pork barrel projects,…

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Preaching the Gospel of Small Government

• November 17, 2006

This New York Times story is the first of a two-part series on the state-based public policy think tank movement.

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Taxes & Economy

Dukakis on Minimum Wage and Immigration

• Nathan Benefield
• July 25, 2006

Editorial by Michael Dukakis in today’s New York Times. Dukakis claims that if we raise the minimum wage to $8 hour, businesses will stop hiring illegal immigrants. Essentially…

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Education

For School Equality, Try Mobility

• Nathan Benefield
• June 27, 2006

How “funding the child” would provide greater school equity and choice – by Rod Paige in today’s New York Times.

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