Double-Down on Reinventing Government

• April 27, 2017

What's different about Wolf's third budget address? Record-setting income and sales tax increases? Gone. Partisan rhetoric? Mollified. Massive spending hikes? Absent. Instead, Wolf targeted bureaucratic waste to close the ever-widening…

Commentary

Double-Down on Reinventing Government

• Nathan Benefield
• April 27, 2017

What's different about Wolf's third budget address? Record-setting income and sales tax increases? Gone. Partisan rhetoric? Mollified. Massive spending hikes? Absent. Instead, Wolf targeted bureaucratic waste to close the ever-widening…

Commentary

Health Care

Double-Down on Reinventing Government

• Nathan Benefield
• February 23, 2017

Imagine if Stephen King had written Green Eggs and Ham. What if Dr. Seuss had penned The Shining? Gov. Wolf’s third budget address was an equally disorienting shift in tone…

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Government Accountability

Term Limits Needed in Pennsylvania

• Nathan Benefield
• March 17, 2009

John Baer writes that the recent Vince Fumo conviction – the latest in a long history of corruption by long-time Pennsylvania lawmakers – is another reason why Pennsylvania…

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Taxes & Economy

Is Christmas bad for the Economy?

• Nathan Benefield
• December 29, 2008

Readers who are spending this week returning gifts they don’t really want – or those who think Wal-Mart playing Jingle…

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Some Definitions

• Nathan Benefield
• July 5, 2007

“Ponzi scheme,” from Wikipedia Rendell Energy Plan, from the Governor’s office Note the striking similarities. Also read Jared Walczak’s commentary on Energy Depletion. Despite all of the…

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