Time to End Direct Higher Education Subsidies

• July 14, 2009

Harrisburg, PA — The Commonwealth Foundation applauds the Pennsylvania House Democrats’ proposed elimination of higher education funding in the state budget, forcing lawmakers to re-examine the state’s role in funding…

Press Release

Pennsylvania’s Flawed Film Tax Credit

• July 14, 2009

HARRISBURG, PA — The Commonwealth Foundation today released Pennsylvania’s Flawed Film Tax Credit: What the ERA study won’t tell you, a policy brief by economists and adjunct scholars Pavel Yakovlev…

Press Release

A Real Budget Solution!

• July 13, 2009

HARRISBURG, PA — Today, the Commonwealth Foundation unveiled a new proposal to help generate revenue to fill the state budget deficit—selling statuettes of Gov. Ed Rendell. Last week, Gov. Rendell…

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CF Applauds House Republicans’ Budget

• July 10, 2009

HARRISBURG, PA — The Commonwealth Foundation today applauded state House Republicans for offering a fiscally responsible state budge proposal. “The House Republicans’ proposal shows that ‘yes, we can‘ balance…

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Regulation

Pennsylvania’s Gambling Addiction

• July 9, 2009

Five years ago this month, Gov. Rendell signed into law the signature policy achievement of his tenure -- legalized slot machine gambling. Act 71 of 2004 allows for 61,000 slot…

Commentary

State Budget

Rendell’s Actual Budget Proposal

• Nathan Benefield
• July 8, 2009

Number crunchers around Harrisburg may remember last week, I posted a spreadsheet of the Pennsylvania state budget proposals, but had to guess at Governor Rendell’s allocation of federal stimulus…

Media

Higher Income Taxes Will Cost Jobs

• July 8, 2009

HARRISBURG, PA — Economists at the Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) at Suffolk University published a rebuttal to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center’s (PBPC) criticism of the Pennsylvania State Tax…

Press Release

State Budget

Reject Rendell’s Zugzwang

• Matthew Brouillette
• July 7, 2009

Observers of the state budget process under Gov. Rendell and a divided General Assembly know that it is akin to a high-stakes chess match, replete with public relations offensives and…

Commentary

State Budget

Pennsylvania Budget and Tax Updates

• Nathan Benefield
• July 7, 2009

Here are some brief highlights on the Pennsylvania budget: Brian O’Neill editorializes angrily on “America’s Largest Full-Time State Legislature” failing to do their job, again, and includes phone numbers.

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