Taxes & Economy

Higher taxes won’t help Pennsylvania economy

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 3, 2008

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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Taxes & Economy

Closing the Gap: The Story of the Middle Class

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • November 3, 2008

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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Taxes & Economy

Real Hope and Change Comes From Ideas Not Politics

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 3, 2008

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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Health Care

Is health care freedom in jeopardy?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 2, 2008

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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Taxes & Economy

Why The Mortgage Crisis Happened

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 31, 2008

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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Regulation

Government Spending Doesn’t Create Jobs

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 31, 2008

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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Taxes & Economy

Obama’s tax plans and small business

  • October 29, 2008

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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Government Accountability

Presidential (Economic) Issues Guide

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 28, 2008

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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Education

Vouching for Obama

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 28, 2008

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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