Taxes & Economy
Higher taxes won’t help Pennsylvania economy
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (PBPC) issued a news release, gleefully welcoming the looming state budget deficit and tax increase. Their exuberance is due to the fact…
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Closing the Gap: The Story of the Middle Class
While the middle class is more of a state of mind than a voting block, both presidential candidates are promising prosperity for these crucial voters. Obama talks about “a…
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Real Hope and Change Comes From Ideas Not Politics
In 1993, I officially launched my campaign for President of the United States. Granted, I was only 17 years old, hadn’t graduated high school yet, and wasn’t a member of…
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Is health care freedom in jeopardy?
The Wall Street Journal makes note of a ballot measure in Arizona which reads: “no law shall be passed that restricts a person’s freedom of…
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Why The Mortgage Crisis Happened
Here is a rather lengthy and detailed history of how government involvement in the mortgage and financial industries in the United States created…
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Government Spending Doesn’t Create Jobs
The Heritage Foundation blog exposes one of the great myths of Washington (and Harrisburg) – that more government spending on transportation infrastructure (or economic development, or corporate welfare,…
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Obama’s tax plans and small business
Originally posted at the Capitol Domes, a new blog from the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal. Barack Obama says he’s for raising taxes on the Fat…
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Presidential (Economic) Issues Guide
While not getting the publicity of the Water and Sewer bond ballot measure, there is also a presidential election going on. As I have gotten a request for “voters…
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Vouching for Obama
Andrew Coulson has a good read on National Review Online on Obama’s “open mind” (apparently now closed) on school choice, noting that Obama is instead using the old…
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