Archive: 2010

State Budget

Is Harrisburg a Prediction of Things to Come?

• Elizabeth Stelle
• September 10, 2010

Harrisburg’s inability to pay off massive debts accumulated by years of wasteful spending made headlines in the Wall Street Journal. Last week, Harrisburg skipped a $3 million debt payment…

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Taxes & Economy

“Free” Federal Grants Result in Higher State Taxes

• Nathan Benefield
• September 10, 2010

Over the last several decades, and increasingly in recent years, state and local government leaders have lobbied for, and received, additional funding from the federal government. Though this money…

Media

Gov. doesn’t back off criticism of GOP ‘wackos

• September 9, 2010

Media Hit

Taxes & Economy

PennEnvironment: Weather is Climate Again

• September 9, 2010

So PennEnvironment yesterday comes out with a new propaganda piece to capitalize on what they call last winter’s “Snowmageddon,” which is designed to get…

Media

Rainy-day funds top $2.75 billion in state’s schools

• September 9, 2010

Media Hit

Regulation

Failing to Understand Liquor Store Revenues

• Nathan Benefield
• September 9, 2010

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell unveiled his state store privatization plan yesterday. This is obviously an issue to watch for in Pennsylvania, where liquor store privatization is also a…

Media

West Virginia = Almost Heaven?

• Nathan Benefield
• September 9, 2010

The “never-met-a-tax-I-didn’t-like” Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center claims that West Virginia has a booming natural gas drilling industry, despite a natural gas severance tax. This “fact” is extremely misleading.

Media

The PG doesn’t justify confiscating drillers’ money

• September 9, 2010

Media Hit

Tell the Truth: PennFuture’s Tax in Search of a Problem

• September 9, 2010

Harrisburg, PA – Commonwealth Foundation President and CEO Matthew Brouillette was on hand Wednesday in Pittsburgh to counter claims that natural gas drilling is a scourge on the environment and…

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