Regulation

Corporate Welfare responsible for 125% of new jobs

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 21, 2008

A new study and press conference today by the Pennsylvania Economic Development Association (PEDA) takes credit for helping to “create” 186,000 jobs in PA from 2003 through…

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Taxes & Economy

The Running Total Of Our Taxes

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 21, 2008

One blog I have been following is Taxation With Representation, in which “Danny” keeps a running total of the total taxes his family has paid – income, Social Security,…

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Health Care

Wal-Mart can be good for your health

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 21, 2008

Salon.com article on the growth of retail clinics in providing low-cost health care services – and the opposition from entrenched special interests.

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Education

Curriculum reform “isn’t enough”

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 20, 2008

Reason’s Lisa Snell lays the smackdown on arguments by Sol Stern in his article “School Choice Isn’t Enough” (Click here for previous post), which labels instructionist reform…

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State Budget

CAGW Names Rep. John Murtha Porker of the Year

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 20, 2008

Pennsylvania’s own Congresman John Murtha was named Porker of the Year by Citizens Against Government Waste: In fiscal year 2008, he brought home 72 pork projects worth $149.2…

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Regulation

Legislators plan hearings on privatizing liquor stores

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 20, 2008

Post-Gazette on the push for privatization of state-run liquor stores. More on State Store privatization: “Public Benefits of Private Liquor” news release and testimony from Reason Foundation…

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Taxes & Economy

The ACLU gets it right for once

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 20, 2008

Tony Phyrillas on the ACLU’s defense of property owners’ right to put campaign signs in their yard in South Park (not that South Park).

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Government Accountability

Mickey Goes to Washington

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 19, 2008

Washington Post article on Walt Disney and other lobbyists pushing for taxpayer subsidies for tourism. If you don’t want to know how the sausage is made, don’t read this…

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