Taxes & Economy

Congressional Ratings from National Taxpayers Union

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 8, 2008

The National Taxpayers Union has released their 2007 Congressional Rankings. As for the PA Delegation: Pitts A 87% (“Taxpayers’ Friend”)Shuster B 74% (“Good”)Peterson C+ 62% (“Satisfactory”)…

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All’s good, according to Bill DeWeese

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 7, 2007

Pennsyltucky Politics gets a positive prognosis from Bill DeWeese (along with some choice words about Patriot News reporter Charlie Thompson, “slithering around in his usual unkempt reptilian fashion.”) DeWeese…

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English offers new remedy to tolling of I-80

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 11, 2007

Congressman Phil English is proposing to ban tolls on all existing federal freeways, similar to a proposal introduced by Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. We don’t think that is…

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Pennsylvania Political War Over Planned Tolls on I-80

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 27, 2007

New York Times on the debate over tolling I-80. The Times points out, as this blog has, that the plan still requires federal approval, the program the Turnpike…

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U.S. House votes against tolls on I-80

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 25, 2007

The US House approved an amendment to the transportation appropriation bill that would block tolling of I-80. The House has since passed the bill since Brett Lieberman broke the…

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An English instructor

  • November 13, 2006

Dimitri Vassilaros of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Simon Campbell’s crusade to give children a strike-free education in Pennsylvania.

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Regulation

The Laws of Economics are Sovereign, Even in Pennsylvania

  • March 13, 2006

It’s a shame that King Canute never ran for office in Pennsylvania. King Canute was the mighty English ruler who, tired of the ceaseless flattery of his advisors, had them…

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Taxes & Economy

Undereducated Today, Outsourced Tomorrow?

  • May 27, 2005

The outsourcing of jobs to lower-wage countries was a hot topic throughout the campaign of 2004, but it is not clear what the president of the United States can do…

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