Taxes & Economy

Rich State, Poor State

• Nathan Benefield
• March 30, 2009

ALEC has released the 2nd edition of their Economic Competitiveness Index – Rich States, Poor States – which looks at which policies drive economic growth among states, and which…

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“Tea Parties” Coming to Pennsylvania

• Nathan Benefield
• February 25, 2009

Online conservative activists have rallied to CNBC’s Rick Santelli’s call last for a “Nationwide Tea Party” to protest the economic “stimulus,” bailouts, and erosion of liberty. Here are some…

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State Budget

The 400 Million Dollar Question

• October 27, 2008

Originally posted at the Capitol Domes, a new blog from the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal. How will you vote on November 4? No, I’m…

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Taxes & Economy

Bush Revises Stimulus Deal to ‘Rebate All of It’

• Nathan Benefield
• January 24, 2008

Great fake news from ScrappleFace “It just makes sense,â€? said White House spokesman Dana Perino, “that if $800 per person would stimulate the economy, then giving back…

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Taxes & Economy

How important are elections?

• Nathan Benefield
• January 22, 2008

Here are a couple of good commentaries on the importance of politics and elections. Though they draw the opposite conclusion, they follow a similar theme, and I find myself agreeing…

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Republican RX

• Nathan Benefield
• March 23, 2007

Wall Street Journal article on Sen. Tom Coburn’s free-market healthcare reform proposals. Mr. Coburn, like the White House, would remove the subsidy corporations get for health care, and…

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Peggy Noonan on the problem in DC

• May 11, 2006

Peggy Noonan in today’s Wall Street Journal: “Baseless Confidence“ “Power is distancing. “When you’ve been in Congress for a while, or the White House for a while,…

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