Friday, February 15, 2008

Another Big Ed Rendell Success Story

Or Building A Better Titanic

Is Rendell Nuts?
Pennsylvania governor confuses taxpayers with leprechauns

Apparently, Gov. Rendell considers the following performance measures a “success”:

From 2002 to 2007, Pennsylvania ranked

38th in job growth,
40th in personal income growth, and
42nd in population growth among the 50 states.

Pennsylvania ranks

39th Best State for Business by Forbes Magazine.
37th Best State to do Business by CEO Magazine.
34th State Competitiveness Report 2007 by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University.
44th on Economic Performance, 37th for Economic Outlook on the American Legislative Exchange Council’s State Economic Competitiveness Index.
F (tied for worst state) on the Alliance for Worker Freedom ’s Index of Worker Freedom.
24th Best Policy Environment for Entrepreneurship by the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council.
27th Best State Business Tax Climate by the Tax Foundation.


Read more about our Rendell Hell here at the Commonwealth Foundation and thank the Lord for Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas.

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