OECD report on Biofuels

Nathan Benefield
September 20, 2007

The recent OECD report on biofuels is a must read for lawmakers consider Governor’s plan to mandate ethanol use and to subsidize ethanol production in PA: The…

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Sick Sob Stories

Nathan Benefield
September 13, 2007

John Stossel in today’s Wall Street Journal on American health care and Michael Moore’s Sicko. When government is in charge of health care, the result…

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Fumo still doesn’t like Turnpike Lease idea

Nathan Benefield
September 9, 2007

Patriot News article cites Vince Fumo as evidence that legislators don’t like the idea of a Turnpike lease. As Fumo put it, the turnpike “is what it is,…

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Socialized Medicine is Already Here

Nathan Benefield
September 7, 2007

Michael Cannon writes that the US health care system is already half socialized (and it is the half-socialized aspects, not the half-free parts, which is to blame of most…

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The Strange Career of Affirmative Action

September 1, 2007

Hillsdale College professor Paul Moreno writes in The Wall Street Journal that “This 125th Labor Day, Americans ought to consider one of organized labor’slesser-known contributions to American politics:…

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Road Work

August 28, 2007

On the two year anniversary of Hurrican Katrina, Joel Kotkin in today’s Wall Street Journal notes how politicians push aside the more mundane aspects of “governing” for “the ephemeral…

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Taxes & Economy

Minimum Wage COLAs: Overstated Benefits & Hidden Costs

Nathan Benefield
August 22, 2007

Support for minimum wage increases is based on the idea that a higher minimum wage will “help the poor” by increasing their pay and lifting them out of poverty.

Commentary

Dunk’s Commentaries

August 21, 2007

Bill Dunkelberg–who is a Commonwealth Foundation Board Member, Temple economics professor, and chief economist for the NFIB–provides these regular commentaries on today’s issues. Here’s his latest installment… With…

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Welfare

Public Welfare Needs Assistance

August 21, 2007

Although the 2007-2008 budget controversy is fading from the limelight, the exorbitant spending it authorizes cannot be overlooked. One of the largest portions of state spending is public welfare,…

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