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As they prepare to spend $1.2 trillion on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, along with a vastly larger sum on a party-line social-policy bill, Democra...

Pennsylvania’s business recovery will be hurt with federal passage of increased business taxes. As Pennsylvania climbs out of the COVID economic abyss...

Benjamin Franklin was right about death and taxes, but new taxes only become inevitable when a Democrat is elected president, and here we are. The Hou...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — My recent column in support of replacing the state gas tax with a fee for every mile traveled wasn’t popular with readers. I didn’t ...

U.S. taxpayers are losing tens of billions of dollars a year to “improper payments” of tax refunds, and it looks like investigators have thrown in the...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — New ideas can be scary, especially new ideas from government that have the potential to cost you money. But I hope we can set aside ...

While many of us are focused on our household budgets, we should also be paying attention to the annual state budget because it has a big impact on bo...

SMETHPORT — With one director absent Monday, the Smethport Area School Board adopted the $18,152,432 budget for 2021-22 that carries a slight tax incr...

No one should be surprised by President Joe Biden’s announcement last week of the American Families Plan, which would fund vastly expanded government ...

Robert Burrell, a Republican, is seeking the position of Bradford Township supervisor. He is a graduate of Bradford Area High School, Olean (N.Y.) Bus...

It’s plain that the federal gas tax is past its sell-by date. Originally introduced as a fair way for automobile drivers to pay for the upkeep of the ...

SMETHPORT — McKean County has been awarded $460,134 for the Covid-19 Hospitality Industry Recovery Program, which can assist the county’s hospitality ...

If you’ve filled out your federal tax return by now, you may have noticed that Form 1040 includes a new question on top: Did you have any transactions...

(Editor’s note: The Era sat down with Sen. Cris Dush last week and spoke about issues impacting the 25th District. The second of two, this story focus...

In his latest transportation-related announcement, Gov. Tom Wolf has put the cart before the horse. On March 12, the governor announced the he signed ...

Taxes are one of those things that seem as permanent as a scar, indelible as a tattoo. It is one of the reasons we bristle when one is proposed. We ha...

It’s hard to believe, now that croupiers in the state Legislature rake in more than $1.3 billion a year in casino gambling taxes, that nearly half of ...

PennDOT’s unfolding plan to impose tolls on some bridges — including several on interstate highways in Pennsylvania — undoubtedly will cause consterna...

Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to increase personal income tax by 46.3% on higher income residents, but lower it for most families, sounds good on paper. But is...

Toll roads are not a new concept. There were tolls collected in Babylon. Aristotle spoke of them in the ancient world. During the Middle Ages, they we...