Author: Hadley Heath Manning
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OPINION | Paid leave proposal is ‘Robin Hood in reverse’
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Hadley Heath Manning Expanding access to paid family and medical leave is a noble goal. The real question is: how best to do so? Voters in Colorado now have before them Proposition 118, which would create a new government paid-leave program, funded by a new payroll tax on all workers. Although many Coloradans will support…
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Manning: ColoradoCare: Costly, not compassionate
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“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it’s free!” This line from political writer P.J. O’Rourke is timely advice for Colorado voters, who will have the chance to adopt a “free” government-run, single-payer healthcare system in 2016. But it’s not just the economic expense of so-called “universal health care” that should concern…
