Taxes & Economy

Marcellus Shale Successes Continue

• Gordon Tomb
• February 10, 2015

The stories continue: more jobs, increased tax revenue and cheap energy, all from the free-market production of Marcellus Shale gas. Take last week’s report from the Central Pennsylvania…

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Regulation

Will More Choice and Convenience Really Kill Your Kids?

• April 30, 2014

In a move that reeks of desperation, the United Food and Commerical Workers Union (UFCW) released a new ad with a ridiculous message: liquor liberalization will kill your kids.  …

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Regulation

End Special Subsidies to Lower Taxes for All

• Elizabeth Stelle
• February 26, 2014

Taxpayers have spent millions on four different occasions to subsidize the infamous “Sony site” in Westmoreland County. In the 1970’s Volkswagen got $70 million in state aid under Gov.

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Regulation

Tired of D.C. Partisanship? Here’s an Issue that Unites Most Americans

• Matthew Brouillette
• October 14, 2013

The political divide in Washington, D.C., may be wider than ever, but a recent alliance between a progressive news site and a free-market think tank in Pennsylvania shows Americans of…

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State Budget

The Case for Corbett’s Tax Reform

• Nathan Benefield
• June 13, 2013

Combined with the federal tax rate, Pennsylvania businesses pay the second highest tax on their profits in the entire industrialized world.

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Does Early Childhood Education Benefit Students?

• April 23, 2013

Gov. Corbett recently proposed an $11.4 million increase in the early childhood education budget, which means Pennsylvania could spend a total of $348.4 million on early…

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Regulation

Pennsylvania Stuck in Prohibition

• Matthew Brouillette
• April 6, 2013

Eighty years ago, baseball was still segregated, Social Security was non-existent and it was illegal to buy alcohol in the United States. Times have changed, and Prohibition has since ended…

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Public Union Democracy

Union Bosses Fight to Stay Relevant

• Priya Brannick
• July 12, 2012

Labor unions are so livid that the Democratic Party is having its national convention in North Carolina—a right to work state, and the country’s least unionized—that they are staging…

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Criminal Justice Reform

Pennsylvania’s Blueprint for Better Public Safety

• June 12, 2012

As Pennsylvania confronts another tight budget, Governor Corbett and legislative leaders must address the skyrocketing costs of prisons. Obviously, there are dangerous people who should be locked up to protect…

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