Regulation

Is the Harley Handout Constitutional?

  • December 4, 2009

Governor Ed Rendell just announced $15.4 million in economic development assistance to renovate its York County factory and train workers. $14 million of the $15.4 million comes from Capital…

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Regulation

SEPTA is Financially Sound?!

  • Elizabeth Stelle, Nathan Benefield
  • December 4, 2009

In a letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer, SEPTA general manager Joe Casey challenges our commentary in which we called for SEPTA to competitively contract routes…

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Education

Penn State Professor Feeling the (Metaphorical) Heat

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 3, 2009

Following the Commonwealth Foundation’s call for a legislative inquiry into use of tax dollars to stifle, rather than foster, scientific inquiry in the case of Penn State professor Michael…

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Taxes & Economy

Pennsylvania’s Taxes Driving Residents Out

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 3, 2009

The Tax Foundation has a new Fiscal Fact on Pennsylvania’s tax system and its impact on inter-state migration. After profiling Pennsylvania’s tax climate (hint: it is…

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