Education

PA School Districts to Get 12% Increase in Support

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 12, 2009

Despite all the whining about budget cuts from the Rendell Administration (even though Rendell demanded there be “no whining”), Pennsylvania school districts are set to get substantially more…

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Health Care

Obama’s Health Care Quackery

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 12, 2009

Shikha Dalmia has a piece on Reason.com discussing the falacy that “universal health care.” The Obama plan would in fact, move the US closer to European countries, Canada, and…

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State Budget

Pennsylvania Budget by Department Under Rendell

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 11, 2009

Critics (mainly, recipients of taxpayer funds) of the budget passed by the Pennsylvania Senate last week decry it for cutting spending, claiming it is “jeopardizing access to hospital care…

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Regulation

Trying to Fight Unfunded Mandates? Go Directly to Jail.

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 11, 2009

Township Supervisors in Cromwell Township (Huntington County) are fighting a mandate from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to install a public sewer system. The supervisors claim such a system…

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Regulation

What Cap and Trade Will Cost

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 11, 2009

A Heritage Foundation analysis finds that proposed “Cap and Trade” legislation will cost the average American family $3,900 per year. The chart to the left compares the cost…

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Health Care

Satisfaction with Health Care: U.S. v Canada

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 8, 2009

John Lott has some interesting research on the satisfaction of U.S. and Canadians on their health care. The primary finding of his study (downloadable here), is that Canadians…

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Taxes & Economy

Remembering 9/11 Through Coercion

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • May 8, 2009

Cato has a post on eminent domain abuse in rural Pennsylvania and the flight 93 9/11 memorial. The contention centers on 7 owners and their 500 acres of the…

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Taxes & Economy

What Are They Drinking in DC?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 8, 2009

Ok, this is getting pathetic. I was going to ridicule Obama’s proposal to cut $17 billion from the federal budget, just as I ridiculed his previous proposal to cut…

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Regulation

Will Pennsylvanians Starve Without Farm Subsidies?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 8, 2009

Some early criticism coming from the Rendell administration about the Senate budget is that cuts to the Department of Agriculture will result in less farming and possibly event mass…

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