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Heartland Daily Podcast: The End of Property Taxes?

  • by Keely Drukala
  • October 5, 2012

On today’s Heartland Daily Podcast … Talmadge Heflin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation recently spent more than one hour testifying before and answering questions from a state panel regarding a proposal[...]

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Rick Ungar Is Wrong: Obama Is The Biggest Spender In World History

  • by Peter Ferrara
  • September 26, 2012

On May 24, 2012, Rick Ungar told the readers at Forbes.com that President Barack Obama “is the smallest government spender since Eisenhower.”  “[O]ur president has actually been tighter with a buck than any United States president since Dwight D. Eisenhower,” Ungar[...]

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Mitt Romney Is Right About the ‘Victims’ of Government

  • by Jim Lakely
  • September 18, 2012

Merrill Matthews, a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation and a policy advisor for The Heartland Institute, argues Mitt Romney has no reason to apologize for his comments[...]

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Omaha Medical Campus Expansion Seeks to Double-Dip Taxpayers

  • by Matthew Glans
  • September 13, 2012

Despite receiving millions of dollars from the state of Nebraska, the forces behind the proposed cancer complex on the University of Nebraska Medical Center have recently begun a strong push[...]

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Economics · Taxes

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Hate High Gas Prices? Blame the Taxman

  • by Jim Johnston
  • September 10, 2012

Drew Johnson’s piece in the Wall Street Journal did us motorists a great favor by showing that the government take from the price of gasoline is seven times the profit[...]

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Ferrara on CNBC: 100 Percent Chance of Recession Next Year

  • by Jim Lakely
  • September 8, 2012

The Heartland Institute’s Peter Ferrara was a guest on CNBC on Friday afternoon. In light of the latest horrible jobs report, the “fiscal cliff” we face, and the impending Taxmageddon on[...]

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Economics · Politics · Taxes

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Ferrara at Forbes: Don’t Believe Obama’s Ads, Romney Is A Middle Class Tax Cutter

  • by Peter Ferrara
  • August 25, 2012

[First posted at Forbes.] Barack Obama brazenly fabricates Mitt Romney’s tax proposals, pouring millions into advertising claiming those proposals would increase taxes by $2,000 a year on the average middle[...]

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Obamacare Was Almost Funded By Taxing Online Porn

  • by Benjamin Domenech
  • August 23, 2012

Over the past week, the presidential campaigns have been arguing back and forth about President Obama’s cuts to Medicare, which total $716 billion over ten years. Now, these cuts aren’t the[...]

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Peter Ferrara on Kudlow Radio Talking Romney/Ryan vs. Obama Budget Plans

  • by Jim Lakely
  • August 19, 2012

On Saturday, Peter Ferrara was a guest on Larry Kudlow’s nationally syndicated radio show. They talked about Ferrara’s Forbes piece titled “The Election 2012 Prizefight: Paul Ryan’s Budget Vs. Barack[...]

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Ferrara at Forbes: The Election 2012 Prizefight: Paul Ryan’s Budget Vs. Barack Obama’s

  • by Jim Lakely
  • August 17, 2012

[First posted at Forbes.] Mitt Romney’s selection of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan to be his running mate perfectly reframes the campaign on grounds the Republicans should win easily,[...]

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Peter Ferrara on CNBC talking about Paul Ryan’s Budget, Medicare Reform Ideas

  • by Jim Lakely
  • August 15, 2012

On Monday afternoon, Heartland Institute Senior Fellow for Entitlement and Budget Policy Peter Ferrara, was on CNBC to talk about Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan’s proposals to rein in out-of-control spending[...]

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Online Tax Testimony Derails Over Witness’s Embarrassing Admission

  • by Steve Stanek
  • August 7, 2012

Tax Foundation Vice President Joseph Henchman always does a great job reporting from the tax front, and today was no exception. Here’s his synopsis of last week’s U.S. Senate hearing[...]

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Slow-Growth Economics at its Finest

  • by Tom March
  • August 1, 2012

The Marketplace Fairness Act; with that kind of title it must have been pulled word for word from one of those Ayn Rand novels. It is a little chilling to[...]

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Defending Limits on State Tax Powers

  • by Steven Titch
  • August 1, 2012

[First posted at Tech Liberation Front.] The U.S. Senate holds hearings Wednesday on the so-called Market Fairness Act (S. 1832), which would be better dubbed the “Consumer and Enterprise Unfairness Act,”[...]

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Ferrara on Forbes: How President Obama Is Deceiving You On Tax Policy

  • by Peter Ferrara
  • July 28, 2012

[First posted at Forbes.] The central theme of President Obama’s tax policy has been that “the rich” (whatever that is supposed to mean) do not pay their fair share of[...]

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