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Taxes & Economy

State’s tax-reduction debate is about the wrong thing

• May 3, 2006

Good timing for the Allentown Morning Call to run my op-ed on our property tax relief scholarship act. As the counter to yesterday’s passage of Act 72 warmed…

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Expert: Property tax plan won’t help for long

• May 2, 2006

Rick Dreyfuss in the Allentown Morning Call: ”I would fully expect that any reduction the average homeowner sees in property taxes would be offset by increases … It’s just…

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State Budget

Line-Item Veto Draws Sen. Byrd’s Scorn – Yahoo! News

• Nathan Benefield
• May 2, 2006

Shockingly, the man responsible for more pork-barrel spending than anyone opposes limiting pork-barrel spending. From Yahoo! News…

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Education

Scholarships as tax relief

• Nathan Benefield
• May 2, 2006

Read Matt Brouillette’s commentary in today’s York Dispatch.

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Public Union Democracy

Thanks Union Bosses!

• May 2, 2006

Watch this Center for Union Facts commercial that will be running nationally this week. Learn more at UnionFacts.com.

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Taxes & Economy

Taxing Oil

• Nathan Benefield
• May 1, 2006

A “windfall” tax on “big oil” will only reduce the supply of oil and increase the cost of gasoline, writes Pittsburgh Tribune-Review columnist Colin McKnickle. It is a shame,…

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Regulation

State jobs: Pay, perks make for popular work

• April 30, 2006

Reading Eagle story on government jobs.

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Taxes & Economy

Free Enterprise and Taxpayer Protection Act

• April 27, 2006

An issue the Commonwealth Foundation has weighed in on, government “enterprises” that compete with private businesses. Read more about it here. Below is the Capitolwire.com story on yesterday’s hearing…

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Regulation

Auction Slots Licenses

• April 27, 2006

The Commonwealth Foundation called for auctioning off the slots licenses in 2003 and 2004, but the gambling proponents decided to “sell” them at a 90% discount rate.

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