Regulation

Smoking ban is bad for business, say casinos

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 17, 2008

Pennsylvania’s slots casinos are complaining that the recently enacted state smoking ban is hurting their revenues (we told you so) and are asking that their exemption be increased…

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Taxes & Economy

Buchanan: GOP should embrace xenophobia, not economics

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 16, 2008

Pat Buchanan on Townhall.com calls for an automakers bailout based on xenophobia and on repeating the mistakes of the past, rather than sound economic policy. Is…

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Public Union Democracy

PSEA: Sampling the Best of PA on Your Tab

  • December 16, 2008

The Department of Labor recently added 2008 Union LM2 records to its website. A perusal of PSEA’s LM2 (file number: 512989) reveals that the state’s largest teacher union continues…

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Taxes & Economy

Ten Problems with a Federal Bailout of the States

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 15, 2008

Chris Edwards has an article in National Review Online on why a bailout of the states is bad policy. Here are his top ten reasons. 1. The federal government…

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State Budget

Earmarks Galore

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 13, 2008

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has a new report on the most outrageous examples of federal spending. Some of the top examples, courtesy of the Center for Fiscal Accountability:…

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Regulation

Pennsylvania school employees pension costs to quadruple in 4 years

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 12, 2008

The Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (PSERS) at their meeting today certified a small increase in the employers’ (re: taxpayers) contribution rate – from the current 4.76% to…

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Regulation

Rendells Wicked Game

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • December 12, 2008

People are but mere pawns for Gov. Ed Rendell’s use as political leverage in an inexorable pursuit of his policy agenda. Thousands of state employees were unnecessarily furloughed…

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Education

Failing Science

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 10, 2008

The Patriot News has a story on the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s news release that almost two-thirds of Pennsylvania’s 11th grade students are not proficient in science. The…

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