Taxes & Economy

I-80 plan relies on traffic growth, while drivers are driving less

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 15, 2008

Congressman Peterson, the lead critic of tolling I-80, makes an astute observation: the Turnpike Commission’s financial model relies on I-80 traffic growing 2.5% annually. Yet a recent…

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Taxes & Economy

Silly Senator, Corn is for Food!

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 14, 2008

ReasonTV video looks at the ethanol craze: Ethanol, especially the corn-based variety, is bad for taxpayers, bad for consumers, bad for the environment, and horrible for the world’s…

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Taxes & Economy

Only 40 states have a better business climate than Pennsylvania

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 14, 2008

Forbes has issued its latest report on “The Best States for Business“.  Pennsylvania ranks 41st.  (Click here for the table). Amazingly, despite Governor Rendell’s “investments” in our…

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Taxes & Economy

Are corporations dodging taxes?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 13, 2008

The AP had a story yesterday headlined, “Most companies in US avoid federal income taxes” (full study). Governor Rendell frequently makes this claim as well, when defending Pennsylvania’s…

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Health Care

Reduce the number of uninsured 25% – for free

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 13, 2008

A new study by University of Minnesota researchers finds that a simply policy change would reduce the number of uninsured by 25 to 33 percent (Greg Scandlen has a…

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Taxes & Economy

Head for the Hills

  • August 12, 2008

“It’s tangible, the misery and hopelessness and the bleakness.” No, this is not the latest sound-bite ad for tourism in PA. It’s actually what Viggo Mortensen said about Pittsburgh,…

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Taxes & Economy

U.S. Congressmen criticizes Pennsylvania’s transportation policies

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • August 12, 2008

U.S. Representative John Peterson explains why we should blame poor money managment, not a lack of funds, for the dilapidated state of Pennsylvania’s roads and bridges. Rep. Peterson mentions…

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Taxes & Economy

Texas Is Fed Up With Corn Ethanol

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 12, 2008

Texas Governor Rick Perry in the Wall Street Journal on why the EPA needs to suspend the mandate to produce more ethanol – which is, according to Perry and…

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Regulation

Steelers, developer ask state to help subsidize amphitheater

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 12, 2008

Post-Gazette story on the demand that taxpayers pay $4 million dollars for an amphitheater. (HT GrassrootsPA). The developer notes, “the entertainment complex itself will be a source of…

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