Minimum Wage Impact
Coverage of the new Pennsylvania minimum wage and its impact on local businesses in the Carlisle Sentinel and the News Item. While local businesses feel the pinch and…
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Legislative Reform on Tap?
Regardless of who is elected Speaker of the House (see here), both the Pennsylvania House and Senate have promised to take up reforms to make the legislative process more…
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Will leasing PA Turnpike be a 21st-century taxpayer bargain?
Will leasing PA Turnpike be a 21st-century taxpayer bargain?By MARC LEVYAssociated Press Writer HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP, Dec. 30) – Let the bidding begin. With lots of private money looking…
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Minimum wage: The rising tide that lifts all wages?
Carlisle Sentinel on PA’s higher minimum wage. Alhtough, our study is quoted, the context is not fully given. Our study does indeed claim that jobs will be lost; however,…
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… but lease would bring efficiencies to turnpike
Nate Benefield in today’s Morning Call.
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Editorial: Taxpayers funding legislators’ retirement
DelcoTimes weighs in on the looming pension crisis.
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Pension gap fix may not be easy
Part 4 of Mark Scolforo’s series.
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Federal income tax data
In response to the commenter on my last post here are some numbers on federal income tax receipts: for 2000 and 2004 from the Tax Foundation and 2006…
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The Top 1% Pay 35%
Wall Street Journal article on how much “the rich” pay in taxes.
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