Taxes & Economy

Raising Taxes on “the Rich,” And Everybody Else Too

Priya Brannick
August 20, 2012

Bernard Hinault, five-time cycling champion of the Tour de France, once grumbled that the French government taxed the rich so heavily, the state had claim to three pumps of…

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Education

PSEA Blows Smoke Over Political Spending

Priya Brannick
August 6, 2012

School board members at the West Chester Area School District are negotiating a new contract with teachers, and rightly questioning why the district deducts union dues from teachers’ paychecks, when…

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Taxes & Economy

Happy Cost of Government Day 2012

July 20, 2012

Today Pennsylvania reached its Cost of Government Day, according to Americans for Tax Reform’s annual report. In other words, it took the average Keystone worker until July 20, or…

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Welfare

State Flexibility Essential to Preserving the Safety Net

Elizabeth Stelle
July 17, 2012

Last week, I noted a number of states whose governors were refusing the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act because of the costs the expansion would impose. Over…

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Education

Massive Strategic Victory for Kids

Matthew Brouillette
July 16, 2012

I've long been convinced that Thomas Jefferson was exactly right when he wrote, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never…

Commentary

Regulation

Liquor Privatization: Just the Facts

July 16, 2012

In a recent Delaware County Times webcast on Pennsylvania liquor store privatization, on which I was a panelist, there was a great deal of information thrown into the mix which may have…

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Public Union Democracy

Union Bosses Fight to Stay Relevant

Priya Brannick
July 12, 2012

Labor unions are so livid that the Democratic Party is having its national convention in North Carolina—a right to work state, and the country’s least unionized—that they are staging…

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Taxes & Economy

EPA Wants to Scare Jobs Out of Pennsylvania

July 6, 2012

The Environmental Protection Agency’s derailing of American’s economy is frightening enough to scare even the Ghostbusters (and they ain’t afraid of no ghost). Pennsylvania will be the 7th hardest hit…

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Education

Would You Rather Kids Share Books, or Get Booked?

Charles Mitchell
June 26, 2012

I’m writing right now from the road, specifically from the poorest city in America: Reading, Pennsylvania. Reading is one of the cities mentioned in today’s CF news release pointing…

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