Opinion
Practice A New Approach
With Medicare and Medicaid presenting huge fiscal challenges, policymakers should consider more-efficient ways to deliver services to the elderly and disabled.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
What a week! The Alliance hosted Dr. Eugene Hickok, who spoke in various venues across the state. Dr. Hickok served six years as Secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Education before serving as Undersecretary and Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education between 2001 and 2005.
Opinion
Not a Helpful Show
Several attorneys general, including North Carolina’s, staged a pointless conflict with MySpace about identifying users with previous convictions for sex crimes.
Opinion
Setting the Stage for Medicaid Reform
My initial reaction to Sen. Dan Clodfelter’s Medicaid plan was wary, but I’ve come around. The current cost-sharing arrangement is intolerable.
Opinion
No Good Budgetary Choice
For advocates of fiscal restraint, being forced to choose between the House and Senate budgets is like asking for a DVD player and getting offered two different VCR brands.
Opinion
If a Minimum Wage Law Isn’t Coercive, What Is?
A government-mandated price floor seems to fit the textbook definition of "restraint, hindrance, especially by legal authority."
Opinion
The Lateral-Entry Boondoggle
When it comes to public education, government claims immunity from its own laws. Antitrust laws protect consumers’ rights and prohibit monopoly control over services and commodities, and for good reason.
Opinion
The Artifice of the Deal
To learn something important about today’s public-policy debate, consider the following proposed compromise and how politics would probably collapse it.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
Recent data underscore what American taxpayers know all too well: at virtually every level – federal, state, and local – education expenditures are skyrocketing. Federal education spending jumped from $15 billion in 2000 to $25 billion in 2005.
Opinion
Raise the bar, not the age
RALEIGH — Wayward legislators, school system officials, and public school advocacy groups, in particular, say that an increase in the attendance age would compel students to stay in school. Yet this notion is not informed by research that shows otherwise.
Opinion
Horse Feathers!
Why would you pay someone more for a service that you don't use, than for one that you do? Ordinarily, it doesn't happen that way. When customers choose not to engage the services of a musician, handyman, or babysitter, they don't expect to pay a premium above what it would cost to actually have them work. In telecommunications, customer preferences should be allowed to guide the choice of communications services.
Opinion
Coalition of the Billing
The spending-lobby cartel is what it is — a coalition of groups tossing out an opening bid for the taxpayers' business. The bid should be rejected.
