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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Blogging about the Commonwealth Foundation

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 8, 2009

Here are some of the blogs who have given us some linkage on a a variety of budget-related issues over the past week. BucksRight, PA Family Institute Blog,…

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State Budget

PA House Democrats Against Tax Hikes

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 8, 2009

Contrary to the Rendell administration’s claims that many Republicans will support a personal income tax increase, the opposite it likely true. John Micek writes that there are maybe…

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Taxes & Economy

Tax Code Helped Cause Financial Crisis

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 7, 2009

Budget & Tax News reports on a new study on the effect of tax policy on the financial crisis. [Author Sam] Eddins also addresses the issue of credit default…

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State Budget

Pennsylvania Budget and Tax Updates

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 7, 2009

Here are some brief highlights on the Pennsylvania budget: Brian O’Neill editorializes angrily on “America’s Largest Full-Time State Legislature” failing to do their job, again, and includes phone numbers.

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