Taxes & Economy

Stimulating the Economy with Tax Cuts

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 24, 2008

Click here for a PDF version of Rep. Mike Turzai’s presentation at last week’s forum on “Stimulating the Economy: Tax Cuts vs ‘Rebates'” Here is video from the…

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Taxes & Economy

Dynamic Effects of Tax Policy

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 24, 2008

Part 3 in a series of videos on the Laffer Curve, from the Center for Freedom and Propserity, this one covering dynamic modeling of tax changes. (Click here for…

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Taxes & Economy

Neat Charts on Unemployment Claims

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 20, 2008

I read the latest coverage of the unemployment insurance claims and how this is the “worst report” since 2005 and the most payroll jobs lost since 2003. I noticed…

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Regulation

Stimulating the Pennsylvania Economy

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 19, 2008

Here is video from yesterday’s luncheon on “Stimulating PA’s Economy: Tax Cuts v. ‘Rebates'”. Click here for more videos from the Commonwealth Foundation.

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Health Care

Are “Large Health Savings Accounts” the Answer?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 19, 2008

Michael Cannon has a paper on “Large Health Savings Accounts” in the Forum for Health Economics & Policy (registration required). Also listen to his Cato Podcast on the…

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Turnpike Lease Resources

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 19, 2008

More information on many of topics I addressed in my testimony on a Turnpike Lease Free analysis of costly Turnpike study PolicyPoint: Act 44…

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Taxes & Economy

Pennsylvania has 2nd highest corporate tax – in the world

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 18, 2008

A new report from the The Tax Foundation finds that Pennsylvania’s combined federal and local corporate income tax rate is higher than any other industrialized nation, and trails only…

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Regulation

Smoke Freedom Day

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 18, 2008

WHP CBS 21 has a story on a quasi-protest of the looming smoking ban. Watch Ryan Shafik go all V for Vendetta on legislators, though his reasoned explanation…

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Turnpike study called one-sided

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 18, 2008

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article exposes the potential bias of authors of a recent Turnpike lease “study”: The study commissioned by state House Democrats was authored by Harvard professor John…

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