Motorists face new costs for highways – USATODAY.com
USA Today article on alternatives to raising gasoline taxes in financing transportation.
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Freedom Man
Dr. Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, eulogizes Milton Friedman in today’s Wall Street Journal.
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Decades-old law assures lawmakers a 2-percent salary hike
The pay raise that DIDN’T get repealed.
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Leasing out turnpike could be $30B windfall
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story on the opportunity policymakers can consider in lieu of raising taxes and fees to pay for transportation infrastructure needs.
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Sense of Irony?
The PA House Democratic Leadership Letter features two items that either show a sense of irony, or a complete blindless to the shadiness of Harrisburg politics. The first items…
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McCain: Defeat Was Payback for Losing ‘Our Principles’
From the New York Times. McCain hits all the ways conservatives looked to big government – spending increases, new entitlement programs, trying to bribe voters with pork barrel projects,…
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Learning from the election
The lesson from the Congressional election is “Money can’t buy me love” says Ed Feulner. Feulner will give the Keynote address at the Commonwealth Foundation’s Gala on December…
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Poverty and Spending
Report released Tuesday from the Goldwater Institute shows that states with the lowest taxes and spending reduced their poverty rates, while states with the highest taxes and spending saw…
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Pension and retirement benefits for lawmakers
The Beaver County Times on the retirement benefits for Democrats Veon, LaGrotta, and Leskovitz. As nearly one-quarter of the Legislature makes its final adieu next week,they face a…
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