Taxes & Economy

Taxing Porn Back in Vogue

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 28, 2008

For the 2nd time in a year a Pennsylvania lawmaker has proposed taxing strip clubs, this time it is Rep. Paul Clymer. (HT Grassroots PA) The Tax Foundation…

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Is the Turnpike Commission stalling on I-80?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 28, 2008

Congressman Peterson seems to think so, as the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports, and I have already assumed as much. For the record, here is the Act 44 timeline: –…

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Education

Homeschooling saves taxpayers

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 28, 2008

This analysis from the Heritage Foundation (it was released in April, but I missed it until the hullabaloo over Subway and homeschoolers) finds than homeschooling saves American taxpayers…

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Taxes & Economy

Tax Lessons from Michigan

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 28, 2008

Michigan’s recent experience in tax policy, summed up in today’s Wall Street Journal, should offer a lesson to other states. After raising taxes to fill in a budget shortfall,…

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Government Accountability

Fumo makes Reader’s Digest list of corrupt pols

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 27, 2008

Congratulations are in order for Senator Vince Fumo, who was named “one of the most crooked politicians in America” in this month’s Reader’s Digest, based on his 272…

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Taxes & Economy

Republicans Are in Denial

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 27, 2008

Tom Coburn in the Wall Street Journal writes on how “Compassionate Conservativsm” destroyed the Republican Party, and how the GOP’s problem isn’t “messaging”, its following through on principles. His…

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Government Accountability

Big government to blame for out-of-control lobbyists

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 27, 2008

Amanda Carpenter raises the point that lobbyists, for all their flaws, are not to blame for the corruption in Washington (or Harrisburg), but rather, it is unlimited government that…

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Education

Home Skool Stoodents Spel to Gud

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 26, 2008

I found this story (HT to Michelle Malkin) interesting, mainly because of the irony. Subway is holding an essay contest which excludes homeschoolers—who have…

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