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Pennsylvania Lawmakers to End Calendar Givewaways

Nov 27, 2009
ABC 27 reports that both the Pennsylvania House and Senate will not be printing calendars to give away this year (which typically featured a "courtesy of Rep. Name") sticker. This is an issue we helped bring to the forefront, and investigated the cost...

Legislating Prices for Legal Ads

Nov 25, 2009
What do you do when something costs too much?  You don’t buy it.  Or if you’re the state, you simply mandate a new lower price. The State House of Representatives recently voted on H.B. 1876 to force newspaper media to charge lower advertising rates...

Who Pays Pennsylvania's Personal Income Tax?

Nov 24, 2009
Pennsylvania has a flat rate Personal Income Tax (PIT) of 3.07%, which is a fair and simple distribution of taxation.  Yet some people are imprudently calling for a state-wide graduated income tax, similar to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).  In...

Why Public Sector Unionism Is a Bad Deal for Taxpayers

Nov 24, 2009
A recent report by the Cato Institute concluded "High rates of unionization in the public sector have led to very high labor costs in the form of generous collective bargaining contracts." This is something we are constantly seeing played out in...

Penn State Professor Caught in Climatology Scandal

Nov 23, 2009
Britain's Climate Research Unit verified hackers confiscated email correspondence between top climatologists, putting Penn State's director of Earth System Science Center, Michael E. Mann, directly in the middle of the biggest scandal to hit the...


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