Defending the Pittsburgh area taxpayers and businesses against the burdensome taxation and regulation of Big Government

VisitPittsburgh’s estimate of a $177 million economic impact from the city’s hosting of the NFL Draft is not independently verifiable, says a researcher at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.

“By all accounts the three-day event went well,” says Jake Haulk, president-emeritus of the Pittsburgh think tank (in Policy Brief Vol. 26, No. 31). “Recently, an estimate of the economic impact was released by a firm which has done similar studies for other cities that have hosted the NFL Draft.

Transit Revitalization Investment Districts (TRIDs) are a politically motivated gimmick to get more people out of cars and into public transit that has run into reality, concludes a researcher at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.

“The bottom line is that for all the effort to write the legislation that establishes the methodology and requirements to create [it] — and the implicit promises of a major boost in public transit use — TRID is an abject failure,” says Jake Haulk, president-emeritus of the Pittsburgh think tank (in Policy Brief Vol. 26, No. 30).