Regulation

Who Will Help CF Save You Money?

• June 20, 2012

Organizations that love to lobby for your tax dollars and special handouts for their special interests are posturing against Gov. Tom Corbett’s corporate welfare package to lure Shell’s new…

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Education

Pennsylvania Higher Education Spending

• April 2, 2012

Pennsylvania taxpayers subsidize higher education through appropriations to 14 state-owned universities (Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, or PASSHE), four state-related universities (Penn State, Pittsburgh, Temple, and Lincoln), community colleges,…

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Regulation

Is Corporate Welfare for Shell Cracker Good for PA?

• Elizabeth Stelle
• March 19, 2012

Astute readers may remember that last month Pennsylvania earned the dubious distinction of the highest taxes for mature businesses and the second highest taxes for new businesses. So how…

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Education

Principled, Punchy Pols Are Popular Pols

• Charles Mitchell
• March 15, 2012

I’ve written previously in this space about Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who has garnered enormous popularity while governing courageously.  Today, with a new Quinnipiac poll about Gov.

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Health Care

Ending the Cycle: Reforming Welfare in Pennsylvania

• Elizabeth Stelle
• February 16, 2012

Government welfare, with its goal to provide a helping hand to those in need, has instead become a vast series of programs that fall far short of the good intentions…

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Taxes & Economy

Will Anti-Gas Political Climate Prevent 10,000 Jobs?

• January 17, 2012

U.S. Senators Bob Casey and Pat Toomey, along with Gov. Tom Corbett, have been lobbying for Shell to invest their petroleum chemistry plant, known as a “cracker”…

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Education

Crisis vs. Competition in Education

• Priya Brannick
• January 12, 2012

Here are two views on school choice, the idea that fostering a variety of schooling options for families—whether public, charter, cyber or private—is a good thing: School choice is a…

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Taxes & Economy

Calvin Coolidge, Tom Corbett, and Why Politics Isn’t Like Business

• Charles Mitchell
• December 30, 2011

My wife is awesome.  As proof, I submit to you the fact that she willingly parted with 35 bucks in order to give me The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge for…

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Why Gov. Corbett Didn’t Get His Christmas Wish List

• Matthew Brouillette
• December 22, 2011

For Christmas this year, Gov. Tom Corbett hoped the legislature would gift wrap three things he could tie a bow on:  An education reform package that included school vouchers, state…

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