Taxes & Economy

NTU: Return Legislative Surplus to Taxpayers

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 31, 2008

The National Taxpayers Union sent an open letter to Pennsylvania legislators urging them to return the estimated $240 million surplus in legislative leadership accounts in the form of tax…

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Education

New Reports on Education and School Choice

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 31, 2008

Here are a few new reports that make for handy reference guides for legislators, advocates, researchers, or anyone interested in education reform. American Legislative Exchange Council: 2007…

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Taxes & Economy

Those wacky truckers

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 31, 2008

As anyone in the Harrisburg area would have noticed this morning, the Truck Drivers are coming into town to protest high diesel prices. Without even addressing their proposal (a…

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Taxes & Economy

What’s a Charity?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 31, 2008

A recent blog post on the Tax Foundation blog points to an analysis they did on the tax treatment of charities, which I found to be quite intriguing.

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Education

School Choice Tax Credit Saves Money in IL

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 28, 2008

An analysis by the Illinois Policy Institute of the Illinois Education Expense Tax Credit finds that an increase on the cap for that credit to $4,000 per child would…

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Education

Merit selection and education lawsuits

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 28, 2008

Our sister think tank, the Show Me Institute, has an interesting post on the intersection of merit selection of judges (i.e. the Missouri Plan) and education cases – namely…

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Health Care

RendellCare lobbyists push socialist pricing

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 27, 2008

The lobbyists charged with pushing RendellCare InsurePANow has fired off another missive advocating more of Rendell’s health care agenda. They tout a bill that they proclaim will “make insurance…

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State Budget

$100 Trillion Dollars in Debt!

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 27, 2008

John Goodman analyzes the latest report of unfunded Social Security and Medicare liabilities and come up with the grand total of $102 Trillion for the “infinite horizon” (after reducing…

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