The Poor Get Richer

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 23, 2007

Wall Street Journal on the growth in earnings and income of low-income families with children from 1991-2005. The CBO report identifies a few reasons for this, including: job…

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Perzel Turned Away From Budget Meeting

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 23, 2007

Capitolwire story on John Perzel’s quest to be included in the budget negotiations, see summary on GrassrootsPA.com. Three things about are troubling: 1) That John Perzel is trying to…

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Cost control is true tax reform

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 22, 2007

A very strong Press Enterprise editorial on real school tax reform – i.e. controlling costs: Enact a Taxpayer Protection Act that would limit increases in state spending to…

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More of the same from Brookings

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 22, 2007

A new report from the Brookings Institution Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing America’s Older Industrial Cities repeats many of the same recommendations from multiple earlier reports (including…

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Who Killed Health Care?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 22, 2007

American Spectator review of Regina Herzlinger’s book, Who Killed Health Care?: America’s $2 Trillion Medical Problem — and the Consumer-Driven Cure. Herzlinger concludes her book by outlining a…

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Response to Congressional Bogeymen on Turnpike

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 22, 2007

Reason Foundation responds to a letter from two Congressmen advising states against toll road leases and promising to “”work to undo” any contract.

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PSBA Property Tax Reform Blueprint

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 21, 2007

The PSBA unveiled its Blueprint for Comprehensive Local Tax Reform, which has some good ideas, some misguided notions, and some bad ideas. The Good:1. Create a state funding…

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Turnpike Lease best option financially

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 21, 2007

Morgan Stanley’s preliminary report indicates that a private lease – depending on the conditions of the agreement – would fetch Pennsylvania a greater sum of money for transportation needs…

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Medicaid Reform in Texas

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 21, 2007

NCPA analysis of the Medicaid reform proposal in Texas – mostly good ideas, but lacking some key components of free-market reform.

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