Taxes & Economy

Principles for Transportation Funding

• December 20, 2012

Pennsylvania's roads and bridges need repair.  But before taking one more dollar from working men and women through higher prices at the gas pump, lawmakers must work to ensure every…

Fact Sheet

Taxes & Economy

Pennsylvania’s Fork in the Road on Transportation Spending

• Nathan Benefield
• March 14, 2012

Motorists frustrated with high gas prices should be on the alert—your pain at the pump could get worse, and it has nothing to do with Middle East tensions or gas…

Commentary

Public Union Democracy

Time to Exit Rendell’s Road to Higher Taxes

• August 17, 2010

Governor Rendell has proposed a series of tax increases to fill a $415 million transportation funding deficit created when the federal government rejected his plan to toll I-80 for a…

Commentary

Taxes & Economy

More Reforms Before More Revenue in Transportation

• Matthew Brouillette
• June 23, 2010

Good morning and thank you Chairman Rafferty for the invitation to testify before your committee and for your consideration of our policy solutions to help address Pennsylvania’s transportation infrastructure funding…

Testimony

State Budget

Maybe Gov. Rendell Needs to Listen to Different Advisers

• Nathan Benefield
• May 3, 2010

Pennsylvania has a massive state budget hole, and it can be chalked up to one cause – listening to the wrong people. Gov. Rendell put his faith in folks at…

Media

Government Accountability

Rendell: Everyone Supports Higher Taxes

• Nathan Benefield
• April 7, 2010

At his press conference announcing that the lawyers at the Federal Highway Administration were all less intelligent that his staff, based on their decision to reject I-80 tolls, Gov. Rendell…

Media

Time for Serious Transportation Funding Solutions

• April 6, 2010

Harrisburg, PA – Commonwealth Foundation President and CEO Matthew Brouillette released the following statement in response to the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) rejection of Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC)…

Press Release

Taxes & Economy

SEPTA and I-80 Tolling

• Nathan Benefield
• March 15, 2010

While the transportation industry is propping up the myth that I-80 tolls won’t be used for transit in Pennsylvania, SEPTA officials are busy lobbying for I-80 tolling in…

Media

Taxes & Economy

Final Nail in I-80 Tolling’s Coffin?

• Nathan Benefield
• February 5, 2010

The FHWA is expect to announce shortly that, once again, the have rejected the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission’s bid to toll I-80 across the state.  Eric Boehm has the details…

Media