Taxes & Economy

Dueling Energy Subsidies are Equally Bad

  • Gordon Tomb
  • June 19, 2018

  Shortly after Pennsylvania lawmakers suggested subsidies for nuclear power plants, the federal government launched a new effort to subsidize not only nuclear power but other forms of energy…

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Taxes & Economy

Coal and Nuclear Subsidies Rejected, Time to End All Energy Subsidies

  • Gordon Tomb
  • January 10, 2018

Government subsidies for so-called green energy are contributing to the closings of coal and nuclear plants that keep Pennsylvania’s electricity system reliable. In response, the U.S. Department of Energy…

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Health Care

Note to Lawmakers: The Power Is Yours!

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • March 22, 2013

One of my favorite cartoon’s growing up was Captain Planet. The cartoon’s catchy theme song ended with an emphatic, “The power is yours!” It’s a message all of our state lawmakers…

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Regulation

Rick Perry, Corporate Welfare and Pennsylvania

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 7, 2011

Texas Governor and Presidential Candidate Rick Perry has taken some flak recently for “job creation” funds, which largely direct taxpayer funds to corporations and special projects. This is commonly…

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Regulation

Six Years of Rendells Stimulus is Enough

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 27, 2009

Gov. Ed Rendell is, as head of the National Governor’s Association as well as the chief of a state facing a major revenue shortfall, leading the push for a federal…

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Taxes & Economy

Governors Against State Bailouts

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 3, 2008

While Governor Rendell and others state executives are asking for taxpayers to bail them out (see related article in The Bulletin) but want to pass the buck…

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Taxes & Economy

Texas Is Fed Up With Corn Ethanol

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 12, 2008

Texas Governor Rick Perry in the Wall Street Journal on why the EPA needs to suspend the mandate to produce more ethanol – which is, according to Perry and…

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