Taxes & Economy

Economic Illiteracy of Presidential Candidates

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 21, 2008

Here is a good editorial in the Wall Street Journal on the economic illiteracy (or perhaps pandering with economic nonsense) of McCain and Obama. I should mention the author…

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How many lobbyists does it take to drive a bus?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 20, 2008

Mass transit is in trouble, we are told. Despite exposes of waste, legislators and the Governor feel we need to pump more money into transit systems (without reforming them),…

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Taxes & Economy

Power surge in Nashville

  • June 20, 2008

Shortly after the release of Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, one of our sister think tanks, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, discovered Gore’s home energy…

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Will Markosek ask for return of taxpayer’s money?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 19, 2008

Blog readers may recall a study commissioned by House Democrats, championed by Transportation Committee Chair Joe Markosek, paid for with $75,000 of taxpayer funds. The study supposedly said Act…

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Taxes & Economy

State Personal Income and Ethanol Policy

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 19, 2008

The BEA issued their quarterly update of state personal income. Normally, my comments on these reports are limited to how Pennsylvania is lagging behind the national average (true again…

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Taxes & Economy

Obama: NAFTA not so bad after all

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 19, 2008

Barack Obama tells Fortune magazine that NAFTA hasn’t been as bad as he said it was. It may have been that he was pandering during the campaign, or it…

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Government Accountability

Josephs offers lip service on reform

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 18, 2008

Tony Phyrillas is the latest to criticize the House State Government Committee chair for single-handedly stalling redistricting reform Joining Phyrillas on that bandwagon – Governor Ed…

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State Budget

Senate Passes Trimmed Down Budget

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 18, 2008

Tired of waiting for the House Democrats to pass a budget bill, the Senate today passed their own version (as an amendment to supplemental appropriations for last year).

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Proposed School Funding Formula Explained

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 18, 2008

The Morning Call ran a story yesterday, including comments by me, on how Governor Rendell’s proposed funding formula will benefit schools that have raised property taxes rather than schools…

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