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Taxes & Economy

Abuse of Eminent Domain

• Nathan Benefield
• March 23, 2006

Harrisburg Airport continues its quest to use eminent domain to take over a nearby competitor, according to the Patriot News. The Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA) is trying…

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Taxes & Economy

Earned Income Tax Credit, Not Minimum Wage Increase, Is Better Way

• March 22, 2006

Employment Policies Institute testifies in Harrisburg in support of Earned Income Tax Credit…

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Anton gives Rendell an “F”

• March 22, 2006

Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association President & CEO Fred W. Anton III gives Gov. Rendell some advice at the Northeast Pennsylvania Manufacturers and Employer’s Association luncheon. Read the Republic Herald story.

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Regulation

Public Pensions and Risky Hedge Funds

• March 22, 2006

The Massachusetts Secretary of State is voicing criticism in the Boston Globe over the amount of pension money going into risky hedge funds. This is noteworthy because Pennsylvania State…

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“Full of Baloney”?

• March 22, 2006

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s Eric Heyl on Rep. Peter Daley’s efforts to expose the “dark side to Quiznos.” Yes, the sandwich shop.

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Health Care

Health benefit costs

• March 21, 2006

Th Bucks County Courier Times looks at the healthcare benefits crisis… Good health comes at hefty cost to taxpayers “Biting the bullet’ at public systems Public…

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Ticking Time Bomb

• March 21, 2006

Patriot-News editorial on the coming pension crisis.

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Public Union Democracy

Answering the Teachers Unions

• Nathan Benefield
• March 17, 2006

John Stossel on RealClearPolitics…

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Taxes & Economy

Minimum wage push continues

• Nathan Benefield
• March 17, 2006

From The Morning Call Online: “Kate Philips, Rendell’s spokeswoman, said the administration is grateful the bill emerged from the committee, but that $6.25 ”barely keeps us competitive” with…

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Regulation

Dreyfuss on the pension crisis

• March 17, 2006

…in the Centre Daily Times.

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Regulation

Insult to injury

• March 17, 2006

State weighs COLA raise in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

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EDITORIAL | A really ‘big’ scam: No shame

• March 16, 2006

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on the BIG scam in Beaver County.

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Taxes & Economy

Who Pays for the Minimum Wage?

• March 16, 2006

From Michigan’s Mackinac Center…. “When a business experiences increasing inventories, raising prices is the last thing it should do to resolve the problem. The same principle applies to labor.

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Taxes & Economy

Hey, Big Spender

• March 16, 2006

Peggy Noonan in today’s Wall Street Journal on President Bush’s bankrupt fiscal policies and his notion of “compassionate conservatism” Noonan: “That’s not what I understood him to mean. If…

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Regulation

EDITORIAL | Gambling easy with house cash Taxpayers left on hook for state, teacher pensions

• March 14, 2006

This Times-Tribune editorial recognizes the need to address the looming pension crisis.

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Regulation

State kept funding agency in audit dispute

• March 14, 2006

State Rep. Mike Veon and State Sen. Gerald LaValle’s BIG slush fund gets scrutiny from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. While the Veon/LaValle scandal may be an extreme example of how…

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Regulation

Cities start adding up retiree benefit costs

• March 13, 2006

An article from the Pittsburgh Business Times on the coming government retiree benefits crisis. Governments at all levels are only beginning to understand how big of a financial crisis…

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When Social Security looks fiscally responsible

• March 13, 2006

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editorial on the coming pension crisis. What continues to amaze us is the feedback from un-informed and mis-informed union members who are saying that we (the Commonwealth…

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Regulation

Repealed, but not removed

• March 12, 2006

WGAL’s Ben Simoneau highlights how the “unvouchered expense” payments will impact taxpayers for years via pension increases for lawmakers. What Simoneau didn’t cover (not that I expected him…

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Public Union Democracy

PA is the Teacher Strike leader of the USA

• March 12, 2006

The Penn-Trafford Education Association is planning to strike this week. Some parents have had enough. See what Simon Campbell is doing about it at www.StopTeacherStrikes.com.

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PGH Tribune-Review’s McNickle on Mr. DeWeese

• March 12, 2006

There he goes again……

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