pennsylvania
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyGovernment
A Pennsylvania Commission Banned Wind Energy. Here’s Why
by Gregory Wrightstone May 26, 2018This month, the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) voted unanimously to ban wind turbines on the 1.5 million acres it controls.
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Pennsylvania legislators have the opportunity to do something remarkable for their kids: Give them a way out.
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Budgets/TaxesEducationFeaturedPodcast
In The Tank (ep93) – John Locke Foundation, Economic Impact Study Flaws, and Driverless Car Privacy
by Donald Kendal June 16, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #93 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the John Locke Foundation, the Reason Foundation, the Platte Institute, and the Alaska Policy Forum.
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Environment/Energy
Fracking Helps Ignite Clinton’s Midwestern Firewall, Not Tap Water
by Isaac Orr December 16, 2016Hydraulic fracturing is often incorrectly blamed for contaminating water with methane and thus allowing people to set their tap water on fire, but one thing fracking did help set ablaze was Hillary Clinton’s so-called “Midwestern Firewall.”
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Budgets/TaxesTaxesTobacco
Vapers Fight Back Against Pennsylvania’s Draconian Vapor Tax
by Lindsey Stroud September 28, 2016On Tuesday, HB 2342 advanced from the Pennsylvania House Committee on Finance with a vote 19-4 to repeal the Commonwealth’s new tax on e-cigarettes and vapor products, which is set to take effect October 1.
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Budgets/TaxesInternet/Telecom
Lawmakers Should Get with the Program and Stop Taxing Digital Goods
by Justin Haskins September 11, 2016Last month, consumers in Pennsylvania got a nasty surprise when they opened their bills for streaming-media services, such as Netflix, thanks to Keystone State lawmakers’ obsession with tax-and-spend policies.
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FeaturedHealth Care
Give PA Patients Right to Try Experimental Drugs and Treatments
by Michael Hamilton July 18, 2016Pennsylvania, one of the first colonies-turned-states to declare unalienable a person’s right to life, must act soon to avoid becoming one of the last states to secure for terminally ill patients the right to try to save their own lives.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Isaac Orr Discusses NY Fracking Ban on Pennsylvania Farm Country Radio
by Isaac Orr January 8, 2015While the ban is considered to be a political success for Governor Cuomo, Orr explains how the state is going to miss out on economic opportunity and tax revenue.
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The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unlawful and unreasonable search and seizure. Yet that protection is being slowly eroded away. Thanks to the “War of Drugs” and the “War on Terror” government, at the state and federal level, has worked alongside the courts to gradually diminish the range and force of the protections that were meant to be inviolable rights of all citizens.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedTaxes
Bag the Plastic Bag Tax
by Matthew Glans December 23, 2013Legislators in Harrisburg are considering a proposal from state Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Wayne, that would make Pennsylvania the first state to impose a statewide tax on the use of plastic bags.
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Anti-energy activists promote falsehoods about this vital, safe job-creating technology. They inhabit a callous parallel universe and wage war on cheap energy, jobs, and the poor.
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FeaturedInternet/TelecomLiberty
Congressman Kelly: Next Phase of IRS Scandal is Abuse of Our Data
by Seton Motley July 11, 2013“The information that the IRS has on file on people goes pretty deep into personal lives. It is being leaked out and given to people for very specific political reasons. I think this is something that should be the most chilling thing for Americans to understand.”
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EconomicsEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Green Crusade a Threat to Economic Growth
by Paul Crovo April 24, 2013We are fighting a battle against scientific ignorance and environmental nihilism that we cannot afford to lose.