Health Care

Residents: RomneyCare a Failure

• Nathan Benefield
• June 29, 2009

Rasmussen polling finds that only 26% of Massachusetts residents think the health care reform in that state was a “success”, compared with 37% calling in a failure. The…

Media

Taxes & Economy

The Road Less Travelled in Pennsylvania

• Matthew Brouillette
• June 26, 2009

Editor's note: This is the second in a series of occasional commentaries on how Pennsylvania can turn around its economic fortune.  In their first installment, “Reviving Pennsylvania,” Brouillette and…

Commentary

State Budget

Rendell’s “Pay the Inmates, not the Guards” Strategy

• Matthew Brouillette
• June 26, 2009

The Morning Call’s John Micek has a follow-up article to yesterday’s revelation that inmates would be getting paid while the guards would not during the current budget impasse.

Media

Time for Open Government is Now

• June 25, 2009

“Pennsylvanians need greater transparency in how state government is spending their hard-earned money.  An online database of state spending would allow every citizen to become a government watchdog. Particularly in…

Press Release

State Budget

Tax Everyone But the Guy Behind the Tree

• Nathan Benefield
• June 24, 2009

Gov. Rendell’s hypocrisy on tax policy is on full display this budget season. While Rendell is demanding higher taxes on individuals and most businesses, he is also working to preserve…

Commentary

Education

The “Mis-education” of Ed Rendell

• June 23, 2009

Gov. Rendell wants to increase taxes to continue the double-the-rate-of-inflation spending that has defined his tenure.  In order to sell his state budget plan to an increasingly skeptical public, he…

Commentary

State Budget

Lawmakers Working Hard on the PA Budget?

• Nathan Benefield
• June 23, 2009

If fundraising for the next campaign is considered working out the details of the state budget, Pennsylvania lawmakers are hard at it.  John Micek points out no fewer than…

Media

Rendell to Suspend Laws of Economics for Three Years

• June 18, 2009

“Gov. Rendell’s critique of the Commonwealth Foundation’s projections of job losses under his proposed tax increase as ‘ludicrous’ is historically and economically ignorant. The Governor’s campaign to raise taxes on…

Press Release

Taxes & Economy

Commonwealth Foundation Announces Winners of Please, No More Taxes! Video Contest

• June 17, 2009

HARRISBURG, PA — The Commonwealth Foundation today announced the winners of the  Please, No More Taxes! video contest: First Prize ($2,500): Colin Jones of Bethel ParkSecond Prize: ($1,000): Robert…

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