Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Podcast
Happy Tax Freedom Day! (… golf clap)
The Tax Foundation’s annual Tax Freedom Day report is out, and it shows federal tax increases that took effect this year will move the date back five days from last[...]
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Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
The Progressive Income Tax Turns 100
My enduring question for progressives is one they typically avoid answering, especially those holding elected office: In your perfect world, where, exactly, would you position the top rate?
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
Progressive Keynesian Myths Debunked: The Coming Redistribution of Political and Economic Power Among the States
Ongoing effective economic experiments among the 50 states are sharpening, and definitive results will pour out in the real world, editorial and opinion fallacies to the contrary notwithstanding. That sharpening[...]
David Stockman: This Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme
David Stockman, who served as President Ronald Reagan’s first budget director, has written something either very right or very wrong, based on the scorn he has been receiving from people[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Obama Attacks IRAs
How much would you need to be able to retire comfortably? If you’re not sure of the answer, don’t worry: the Obama administration will answer for you. President Obama’s FY[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care
Three Ways ObamaCare Is Failing
As I’ve noted before, there were three opportunities for those who oppose Obamacare to repeal and replace it. One path was at the ballot box, where opponents failed. The next[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Podcast · Politics
Why I Hate Chained CPI, and You Should Too
Rather than lie about inflation, people in government should declare the truth: The government cannot sustain these entitlement programs as they are structured, so they’re going to be cut.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Education · Environment/Energy · Featured
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Obama’s 2014 Budget Plan
President Barack Obama released his 2014 budget proposal, which would spend $3.8 trillion. The budget contains a tax hike of some $800 billion, including a requirement that “millionaires” pay at[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Politics
You Can Have a Big Economy, or a Big Government – Not Both
President Barack Obama has for five-plus years said and done two contradictory things regarding the United States’ economy. 1) He has repeatedly said that he wants the private sector to recover –[...]
One Day in the Life of Federal Government
I’m scanning headlines on the Internet. I see President Obama has announced he’ll agree to cut Social Security and other benefit programs in exchange for higher taxes. I think, “Take[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
His Greatest Failure
President Obama likes to pose as a martyred man, because when he entered office, the economy was in a recession. But the recession soon ended, following the pattern of the[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Regulation
Heartland’s Steve Stanek on Chicago’s NBC 5 Ripping ‘Essential Air Service’ Program
Steve Stanek is featured in an excellent piece from Monday night on Chicago’s NBC affiliate WMAQ. It a story about the “essential air service” program, a legacy boondoggle from the[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
The Next Obama Appointee – Another Huge Shift to the Left?
President Obama’s second-term Cabinet choices have been much further to the Left than their predecessors.
Budgets/Taxes · Environment/Energy
No April Fools: Obama’s Green Energy Stimulus is Officially a Joke
President Obama’s alternative energy “stimulus,” administered through his Department of Energy by previous Secretary Steven Chu, had already become a joke because of the failures and foibles of so many[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
The Age Of Unreason: Senate Democrat Budget Mythology
Recent Republican budget proposals have cut taxes on the rich and asked the middle class to pick up the tab? When was the last time any Republican proposed to increase taxes on the middle class?
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