Education

“Tax You More Bus Tour” Hits Speed Bump

  • July 11, 2009

The “Tax You More Bus Tour” is still puttering along in the taxpayer-funded luxury bus – or at least it was scheduled to. The Department of Education twice attempted…

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Health Care

Socialized Health-Care Not Paying Off

  • July 10, 2009

There have been many claims that medical costs have led to bankruptcies across the United States. As a result, advocates of socialized medicine argue that the mixed public-private health…

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State Budget

Obituary for the Pennsylvania Income Tax Hike

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 10, 2009

Rendell’s personal income tax hike plan is dead, declared PA House Republicans yesterday.  Brad Bumsted has the obituary in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. Despite not having…

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State Budget

Balancing the Budget: Another Rendell Lie?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 9, 2009

The Rendell administration has been saying for weeks that the budget passed by the Senate in May (SB 850) is “$1.5 billion out of balance”.   As John Micek…

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Health Care

Video: Health Reform and Wait Times (In Lego!)

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 9, 2009

Here is a good video comparing health care wait times in Atlanta and Boston – home to the failed Massachusetts health care reform, which serves as a model…

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State Budget

Rendell’s Actual Budget Proposal

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 8, 2009

Number crunchers around Harrisburg may remember last week, I posted a spreadsheet of the Pennsylvania state budget proposals, but had to guess at Governor Rendell’s allocation of federal stimulus…

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Taxes & Economy

Climate Change Alarmists Seek to Educate NEPA Taxpayers

  • July 8, 2009

The Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, a self-described “sustainable environment” grant making institution based out of New York City, recently announced its plan to give a $50,000 grant to PennFuture, to “support…

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