Pay-raise suit on to high court

• December 28, 2005

…”the state Supreme Court has agreed to hear Stilp’s arguments that the bill was unconstitutional because it allowed lawmakers to skirt a state constitutional ban on mid-term raises by taking…

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Taxes & Economy

Pro free-markets and pro-business are not the same

• December 27, 2005

George Mason University economics professor Don Boudreaux draws the important distinction between supporting free-markets and supporting businesses. For example, he writes: “Like many economists, I oppose minimum-wage legislation. But this…

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Taxes & Economy

Lawmakers take break on tax issue

• December 26, 2005

Will either the House or the Senate plan be enough to satisfy taxpayers? Methinks not. Here’s a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story on the lull before the storm in Harrisburg. The…

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Regulation

Corporate “wealthfare” is happening all around us

• December 21, 2005

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial, The PNC rip-off: False renaissance, is just the latest example of taxpayers subsidizing the bottom line of major corporations. Remember the $2 Billion Gov. Rendell…

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Education

The public school monopoly hates competition

• December 18, 2005

It was always only a matter of when, not if, the defenders of the status quo in public education would seek to hamstring their competition. First, no charter school…

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Pension grab: Lawmakers at a loss

• December 17, 2005

Editorial from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review warns of the looming crisis of public pensions. The Commonwealth Foundation will soon be releasing a report that shows just how out of…

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The state of Pennsylvania: Rendell’s ‘growth’ …

• December 12, 2005

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Gov. Rendell’s “cooking of the books” on job creation.

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State Budget

… tap-dancing pigs

• December 12, 2005

Editorial on spending limits from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

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Pension costs to rise

• December 11, 2005

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story on the rising costs of government-sector employee pensions. While the private sector recognized long ago the need to move away from “defined benefit” to “defined…

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