Taxes & Economy

Artificial costs

• March 3, 2006

Prevailing wage issue in the Patriot-News.

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Government Accountability

How a Bill Becomes a Law … PA style

• Nathan Benefield
• February 8, 2006

In an effort to settle a dispute between some shareholders of Philly-based Sovereign Bank, as reported by the Patriot News, some “ghost voting” ocurred in the Senate. The bill,…

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Taxes & Economy

House fails to override veto of tax cut

• January 31, 2006

Patriot-News story on yesterday’s action in the House where many Democrats who originally supported tax cuts renegged on their suppport.

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Education

Public nonprofit, privately profitable

• January 17, 2006

The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, a taxpayer-supported, government-monopoly student loan organization, will pay its top executive, Dick Willey, nearly a half million dollars in 2006, reports the Harrisburg…

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Regulation

The Looming Financial Crisis — Public Sector Pensions

• January 4, 2006

Whether it is pensions for state workers, teachers or legislators, the financial promises made by politicians have put taxpayers on the hook. How much? Well, don’t ask the people who…

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Regulation

Public Pensions: The Coming Financial Crisis in PA

• January 2, 2006

While Pennsylvanians were up in arms over the pay raise, the ongoing public-sector pension scandal and coming financial crisis should make taxpayers even more irate. The promise of defined benefits…

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Let’s consider positive roles of businesses

• December 4, 2005

Hear! Hear! From Tom Barstow at the Harrisburg Patriot-News.

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