Taxes & Economy

How Government Created the Financial Crisis

• Nathan Benefield
• February 9, 2009

John Taylor in the Wall Street Journal on how Government created the financial crisis: Monetary excesses were the main cause of the boom. The Fed held its…

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Regulation

Financial “crisis” a failure of government

• Nathan Benefield
• September 23, 2008

While some pundits and media, such as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, point to the proposed bailout as demonstration of the failure of the free market, in fact it is a…

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Turnpike Commission’s version of MiniTru

• Nathan Benefield
• November 26, 2007

Turnpike Commission Vice-Chair and bond attorney Tim Carson in the Morning Call offers a rebuttal to the Brouillette-Gilroy Commentary. Carson’s editorial is as accurate as an Enron…

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Education

School Taxes and Education Quality: Rendells Rhetoric Versus Reality

• Matthew Brouillette
• January 22, 2003

Governor Rendell’s inaugural speech reiterated his campaign promise to reform Pennsylvania’s school funding and property tax system while boosting the state’s share of total school revenue to 50 percent. But…

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