by Jane Richey | Mar 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
A new proposal might eliminate property taxes in Pennsylvania, only to replace them with a 1 percent increase in sales and personal income taxes. A bipartisan group of lawmakers believe this trade-off would help taxpayers and school districts alike. The plan, being...
by Jane Richey | Mar 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Pricing and security dominated the testimony at the congressional hearing held by U.S. Rep. Pat Meehan, R-7, of Upper Darby, at Neumann University to explore the effect of the regional refinery closures. “As we all well know at the local level, the decline of domestic...
by Jane Richey | Mar 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
In one week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments surrounding the key provision of the 2010 health care law – the individual mandate. But outside of the courts, efforts in Congress to tinker with the complex and controversial law continue, including a vote this...
by Jane Richey | Mar 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
A coalition of environmental groups issued a scorecard Tuesday rating the voting records of Pa. Senators and Representatives on the issue of Marcellus shale. The Pa. Sierra Club, Conservation Voters of Pa., Clean Water Action and Penn Environment issued the ratings,...
by Jane Richey | Mar 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Less than a year ago, the House of Representatives passed a budget that took on our generation’s greatest domestic challenge: reforming and modernizing government to prevent an explosion of debt from crippling our nation and robbing our children of their future....