Regulation

The PLCB’s Boondoggles

  • March 7, 2022

PLCB History In 1933, four days before the end of Prohibition, then-Gov. Gifford Pinchot established the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB). Pinchot created the PLCB to fill the regulatory…

Fact Sheet

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Regulation

Borrowing ‘Dumb’ Ideas on Pension Reform

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 24, 2015

Would you take out a second mortgage on your home to bet on the stock market? Such an idea deserves ridicule—if not alarm. You’d be putting your home and your…

Commentary

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State Budget

When Will Gov. Wolf Compromise?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 28, 2015

My letter to the editor in the Times Leader today takes Gov. Wolf to task for claiming to compromise, while still insisting on his sales and income tax increases—the largest tax…

Media

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Taxes & Economy

Fact-Checking on Natural Gas Taxes in PA

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 27, 2011

Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center’s new report alleging the natural gas industry doesn’t pay taxes goes beyond misleading readers to using inaccurate information in order to jeer support for a…

Media

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Taxes & Economy

Movin’ Out of Pennsylvania in 2008

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 9, 2009

United Van Lines has released their 2008 migration study, detailing shipments into and out of each state. Pennsylvania saw 58% of movement leaving the state, ranking as the…

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Regulation

Tenant unlikely for $250 million airport

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 13, 2008

A LBFC study on the Hazleton area airport proposal finds that prospect of attracting a major client is remote (FedEx and DHL said “heck no”, while UPS said “very…

Media

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Pension crisis on the horizon

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 18, 2006

The Scranton Times-Tribune looks at the looming crisis in our state pension systems, and how lawmakers bolstering pension benefits exacerbated this crisis. Also, Mark Scolforo of the AP with…

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Teacher pension hike could make tax cuts fleeting

  • December 18, 2006

Mark Guydish of the Times Leader focuses on how pension increases will outpace any property tax “relief” (i.e., shift) from Gov. Rendell’s historic Act 1 of 2006.

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Taxes & Economy

GIving Taxpayers a Voice?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 7, 2006

With the new property tax “relief” law (Act 1 of the Special Session) each school district must have a “tax commission” examine any proposed tax increase, as reported in the…

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