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Joseph Coletti

Email: jcoletti@johnlocke.org

Joseph Coletti is Director of Health and Fiscal Policy Studies at the John Locke Foundation. His writings have appeared in numerous national and state publications. He has appeared on radio and television shows and has presented to national organizations. Coletti's policy contributions have had direct impact in health care, state budgets, and pension reform.

Before joining the Locke Foundation, Coletti was with the U.S.-Japan Business Council in Washington, D.C., and J.D. Power and Associates in Detroit and Tokyo.

Coletti received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He lives in Cary with his wife and their two children.


Articles by Joseph Coletti

(3.25.11) Like a Bad Zombie Movie
The dreaded estate tax has returned from the dead.

(12.29.10) Government Should Go Barefoot
By sticking to core functions, the state can allow individuals, families, and communities to recover -- and thrive.

(12.17.10) Government Should Go Barefoot
By sticking to core functions, the state can allow individuals, families, and communities to recover -- and thrive.

(12.10.10) Government Should Go Barefoot
Much as running shoes can cause more problems than they solve, government needs to resist the temptation to overengineer society.

(12.01.10) Freedom Has an Inadvertently Conservative Message
Freedom is either the biggest punking of liberal dogma perpetrated in a long time or the best written inadvertent debunking of liberal assumptions ever. Jonathan Franzen doesn't much like conservatives and misunderstands America, but try as he might, Freedom — which he intends as an ode to the European vision of rights originating from government — ends up with a fairly conservative message in support of markets, marriage, and unalienable rights. That's not to say it’s enjoyable to read, and in a way its apparently unintended conservatism is on par with the rest of the book.

(8.12.10) Broke, But Not Yet Broken
Legislators heading to Raleigh in January will have to fill a large budget hole.

(8.06.10) Broke, But Not Yet Broken
Legislators returning to Raleigh in 2011 need to realize the state doesn’t have enough money to pay for all the government services they’ve pushed in the past.

(3.26.10) Igor and Obama
Freedom requires hard work, a lesson worth repeating in today’s current political climate.

(2.01.10) Griswold: Trade Not Job-Loss Culprit
Griswold’s final recommendation: National leaders should extol the benefits of competition from imports. Free trade is a matter of good economics, justice, fairness, and social equity, he concludes. After reading his book and examining the data, you may find it harder to disagree.

(12.14.09) Real reform could renew growth in North Carolina
RALEIGH -- While state government officials keep one eye on the health care debate in Washington, they are shifting their attention to other pressing matters that they can control, beyond simply opting out of Medicaid. These include tax reform and future retirement benefits for state employees.

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