Media

LTE: Sever Spending

• June 9, 2010

Media Hit

Regulation

The $52 Billion Pension Deferral Plan

• Nathan Benefield
• June 9, 2010

Legislation that would implement Gov. Rendell’s deferral of payment on state pension obligations is under debate in Pennsylvania House. HB 2497 would limit the annual increased in the…

Media

Commonwealth Foundation condemns proposed Marcellus Shale gas severance tax

• June 9, 2010

Media Hit

Government Accountability

CF Blog Roundup

• June 9, 2010

The Commonwealth Foundation has been mentioned in some recent state blogs: Tony Phyrillas posted our video of Maurice McTigue, offering Pennsylvania some economic tips, at our Policy and Principles…

Media

Taxes & Economy

Leaky Reporting by the Post-Gazette

• June 8, 2010

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette last week cast an uncritical eye — in fact, you could call it cheerleading — upon a project touted as part of Allegheny County’s…

Media

Taxes & Economy

The Overton Window

• Nathan Benefield
• June 8, 2010

The Overton Window – the title of Glenn Beck’s new book, a work of fiction which borrows from the idea- is a concept that help drives the work of…

Media

State Budget

Rendell Ends Taxpayer Funded Legacy Project

• Nathan Benefield
• June 7, 2010

Reported here earlier, the Rendell administration had been paying a public relations guru to research the “successes” of Rendell’s policies, to be used to lobby for higher taxes. Today.

Media

State Budget

How Many State Workers Will Get Laid Off for the “Legacy Project”?

• Nathan Benefield
• June 7, 2010

“We’ve cut state government to the bone” Gov. Rendell likes to claim, while demanding higher taxes, decrying cuts to key services, and threatening to lay off state workers. But…

Media

Regulation

Video: Fiscal Lessons for Pennsylvania

• Nathan Benefield
• June 7, 2010

In a new video, Maurice McTigue, Vice President at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a former member of the New Zealand Parliament, speaks about how…

Media

What are the prospects for privatizing wine and liquor sales in Pennsylvania?

• June 6, 2010

Media Hit

‘Change’ hard to come by in Harrisburg

• June 6, 2010

Media Hit

The Film Tax Credit: Cut!

• June 6, 2010

Media Hit

Rendell’s economic claims require an explanation

• June 4, 2010

Media Hit

Taxes & Economy

Obama: More Green for Green Energy

• June 4, 2010

Recently when speaking about greening the nation’s energy supply in Pittsburgh, President Obama remarked: [A]nd it means rolling back billions of dollars in tax breaks to oil…

Media

State Budget

The State and Local Government Debt Mess

• Nathan Benefield
• June 4, 2010

While investment guru Warren Buffett is pulling out of municipal bonds, Gov. Rendell says Buffett doesn’t know what he is talking about, and that there is no problem with…

Media

Regulation

Big Idea: Privatizing City Services

• June 4, 2010

Sandy Springs, GA, is one of the most efficient cities in the country, as reported in the Tribune Review. Incorporated in 2005, it was the first fully privatized…

Media

Regulation

Why PA Corporations Don’t Pay Taxes

• Nathan Benefield
• June 3, 2010

Gov. Rendell and his allies and shills that call on higher taxes for businesses like to claim that 70% of Pennsylvania corporations don’t pay…

Media

Taxes & Economy

Presentation: Lessons of Fiscal Responsibility for Pennsylvania

• Nathan Benefield
• June 3, 2010

Maurice McTigue, Vice President at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a former member of the New Zealand Parliament, spoke at a Commonwealth Foundation breakfast yesterday.

Media

Regulation

More Evidence on Privatizing Liquor

• Nathan Benefield
• June 3, 2010

Don Boudreaux and Julia Williams have an op-ed arguing for privatization of Virginia’s state liquor stores, noting little difference between control and license state in alcohol-related deaths, binge drinking,…

Media

Taxes & Economy

How Public-Private Toll Roads are Financed

• Nathan Benefield
• June 2, 2010

Robert Poole clarifies a number of misconceptions about how toll roads are financed – particularly in the cases of public private partnerships for new projects. This is not a…

Media

State Budget

Welfare Fraud and Abuse

• Elizabeth Stelle
• June 2, 2010

Good afternoon, my name is Elizabeth Stelle, and I am a research associate with the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, a non-partisan educational institute based in Harrisburg. Thank you…

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