Taxes & Economy

Gov. Rendell’s Plan to raise gas prices and subsidize Big Ethanol

• Nathan Benefield
• May 10, 2006

Gas prices are high. As previously noted in this blog, part of the reason for high prices is the mandated use of ethanol fuels – forcing refineries to retool.

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Taxes & Economy

How to Soak the Rich (the George Bush Way)

• Nathan Benefield
• May 4, 2006

Good piece in the Wall Street Journal on the effects of tax cuts.

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Education

Educating From the Bench

• April 27, 2006

Judges order legislators to spend more on schools, and taxpayers see less in return. Dr. Jay P. Greene in today’s Wall Street Journal.

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Taxes & Economy

Why a windfall tax is bad policy

• Nathan Benefield
• April 25, 2006

Should the federal government create a new tax on profits only for oil companies, as Governor Rendell suggests? This “windfall tax” esentially ensures a limit on the amount of…

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Government Accountability

Voter fraud in Pennsylvania? Gov. Rendell isn’t worried.

• Nathan Benefield
• April 13, 2006

John Fund on Pennsylvania election fraud and oddities in today’s Wall Street Journal…

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Health Care

Health care for everyone?

• April 11, 2006

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney writes in today’s Wall Street Journal that he believes he’s found a way to provide health care for everyone, with “no new taxes, no employer…

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Can a black Republican win in a blue state?

• April 8, 2006

Interesting Wall Street Journal article on Maryland’s Michael Steele run for U.S. Senate.

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Taxes & Economy

Wages of Politics

• Nathan Benefield
• March 28, 2006

Wall Street Journal on the minimum wage.

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Taxes & Economy

Classy Economist

• March 25, 2006

The Wall Street Journal on Dr. Thomas Sowell.

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