Are raising prices a crime?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 25, 2007

Wall Street Journal on the absurdity of legislation on “price gouging”. Not only have previous investigations over the pase few decades turned up few cases of price gouging, but…

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Republican RX

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 23, 2007

Wall Street Journal article on Sen. Tom Coburn’s free-market healthcare reform proposals. Mr. Coburn, like the White House, would remove the subsidy corporations get for health care, and…

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Is your governor a good-time Charlie?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 22, 2007

That is the question posed by Stephen Moore as he discusses State Spending Sprees in the Wall Street Journal. The answer, if you are reading this in the Keystone…

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Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 12, 2007

John Fund in the Wall Street Journal writes about taxpayer-financed lobbying, which was exempted from the “ethics bill”. Also check out this site from Americans For Prosperity on…

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GOP Protectionists

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 6, 2007

Jack Kemp on free trade and the so-called “conservative protectionists” in today’s Wall Street Journal.

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Show on the Road

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 27, 2007

Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation in today’s Wall Street Journal on the potential of public-private toll roads to revilatize our highway system.

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The Philadelphia Story

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 23, 2007

Paul Peterson in today’s Wall Street Journal on the success of privately-managed public schools in Philadelphia.

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Health and Taxes

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 24, 2007

Commentary on Bush’s health care proposal from the Wall Street Journal; from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; and from the Heritage Foundation.

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Illegal Health Care

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 23, 2007

Wall Street Journal article points out that employer health insurance mandates (which would include Governor Rendell’s proposal) are illegal under federal law. But we shouldn’t let something like the…

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