Government Accountability

Pennsylvania Tax Day Tea Parties

• Elizabeth Stelle
• April 8, 2010

We’ve been getting a lot of calls from folks who want to attend a tax day tea party. Tea Party Patriots has a good list of the events taking…

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Taxes & Economy

Grading Wagner’s Infrastructure Agenda: Revise and Resubmit

• Nathan Benefield
• April 8, 2010

PA Gubernatorial Candidate Jack Wagner put out an a proposal for infrastructure today. Not much in the way of specifics or substance contained within, or even much to write…

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Education

Some Facts About School Choice for Joe Hoeffel

• Nathan Benefield
• March 26, 2010

In the Democrat contest for Pennsylvania Governor, Joe Hoeffel came out swinging, attacking Anthony Williams for supporting school choice. Apparently, Hoeffel thinks the…

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Regulation

Maryland Smokers Border-Hopping to Avoid Cigarette Tax

• March 19, 2010

According to a recent op-ed by Marc Kilmer of the Maryland Public Policy Institute, a 2007 cigarette tax is having an adverse effect on the Free State’s economy. While…

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Government Accountability

For Whom The Turnpike Tolls

• Matthew Brouillette
• March 9, 2010

Tolls are appropriate because they are imposed directly upon travelers for their use of roads.  However, the plan to toll I-80 represents more than a toll.  It is also a…

Commentary

Pennsylvania’s EITC Highlighted in School Choice Yearbook

• March 8, 2010

PA was among those states in which educational opportunity was jeopardized, according to Alliance for School Choice’s yearbook for 2009-10. The report indicates that 2009 brought setbacks, particularly…

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Taxes & Economy

Federal Aid to States Creates Pervese Incentives, Undermines Federalism

• Nathan Benefield
• February 1, 2010

The Mercatus Center has a new policy report on the perverse incentives of the stimulus – i.e. that it drives state governments to spend more. Click here for…

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Education

The Growth and Benefits of Cyber Education

• Nathan Benefield
• January 27, 2010

The Heritage Foundation has a new background on online education, from a national perspective.  They write: As many as 1 million children (roughly 2 percent of the…

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Government Accountability

Intern for Liberty: the IHS Summer Fellow Program

• Elizabeth Stelle
• January 7, 2010

Are a student or do you know a student looking to advance their career while advancing liberty? The Charles G. Koch Summer Fellows Program provides summer internships at over…

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