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Sobering Facts on Liquor Privatization

• Nathan Benefield
• April 29, 2013

Sen. Daylin Leach’s editorial on liquor store privatization repeatedly misstates facts. Here is my letter to the editor in the Delaware County Times to set the record straight:…

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Pennsylvania’s Pension Crisis: Myths and Facts

• April 25, 2013

Pennsylvania’s two main government worker pension systems, the Public School Employee Retirement System (PSERS) and the State Employee Retirement System (SERS), are dramatically underfunded. Together these funds owe more than…

Fact Sheet

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McIlhinney Renews Hope for Liquor Privatization!

• Matthew Brouillette
• April 24, 2013

On Tuesday, Senator Chuck McIlhinney appeared on The Dom Giordano Program on 1210 WPHT in Philadelphia to discuss liquor privatization—giving taxpayers and consumers renewed hope that Pennsylvania may finally…

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Millions Blown in Border Bleed

• April 8, 2013

It’s time for another look at common myths opponents use against getting the government out of the booze businesses. Find more myths debunked here and here. Myth #5:…

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Protect Pennsylvanians from Pension Tsunami

• Priya Brannick
• April 7, 2013

Pennsylvania's pension crisis is about to hit Pennsylvania homeowners and taxpayers, and the results won't be pretty.

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Liquor Privatization: Good for Business (Except in Jersey)

• Nathan Benefield
• April 2, 2013

Ending Pennsylvania’s government liquor monopoly has some folks worried…like liquor store owners in New Jersey. Writes Jason Laday of the South Jersey Times: At any given time, on…

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Liquor Privatization Benefits Beer Distributors

• Nathan Benefield
• March 25, 2013

In the Bucks County Intelligencer, Sen. Chuck McIlhinney suggests that the liquor privization bill that passed the House last week doesn’t do enough for beer distributors.  In contrast,…

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Liquor Privatization: Social Impacts

• Nathan Benefield
• March 25, 2013

The PLCB has a conflict of interest-on the one hand controlling and monitoring alcohol, and on the other, advertising and marketing the sale of alcohol. Government control has not made…

Memo

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Dispelling the Myths About Alcohol Privatization

• March 22, 2013

The friends of government-run liquor stores have to resort to such tactics as they have neither public opinion nor facts on their side.  Here are just a few of the…

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