Environment/Energy · Regulation
An oil and natural gas boom is underway in the United States, born of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” It has created tens of thousands of well-paying jobs[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Education · Environment/Energy · Health Care · Politics
The following are statements from staffers, fellows, and policy advisors at The Heartland Institute, a national free-market think tank based in Chicago. For more comments, refer to the contact information[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
Conservatives are still glum about the election, and the upper hand President Obama seems to have over Republicans. But the political stage has been framed far worse for conservatives and[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Liberty · Politics
Peter Ferrara, Heartland Senior Fellow for Budget and Entitlement, so impressed the producers at CNBC with his statement about the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision on Barack Obama’s unconstitutional[...]
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled invalid three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board made by President Barack Obama on January 4, 2012. Presidents have the power[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Politics · Taxes
Fundamental, structural, entitlement reforms, proven to work in the real world, would provide far better benefits for seniors and the poor, while slashing future entitlement spending. Indeed, over the long[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics
Neither President Obama nor any other Democrat ever proposed any middle class tax cut in the fiscal cliff negotiations. All that was ever discussed is continuation of the same middle[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Environment/Energy
Last week, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) showed their disregard for America’s fiscal challenges, opting instead to ask for continued taxpayer support of an industry that cannot stand on[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Politics · Taxes
Why are Republicans so bad at the game of negotiations? Consider a thought experiment: What if, the moment President Obama months ago suggested that he wanted to continue the Bush[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
Stop that cringing! I can already see the light at the end of the tunnel. And it’s not pretty for today’s neo-Marxist Democrat party. The man you see before you[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
[First published at Forbes and the Heartlander.] President Obama seems to have a strategy to terminate all of the Bush tax cuts, not just those for “the rich,” as he has been[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
[First published at The American Spectator.] It seems like everyone is piling on my college friend Grover Norquist because they can’t wait to abandon the tax pledge not to raise[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Liberty
[First posted at Forbes.] The fiscal cliff will not be a new topic to regular readers of this column. I have been writing about it for almost two years, including[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics
[First posted at Forbes.] Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon note in their underappreciated work, It’s Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years, that in[...]
I’ve been reading a lot of analysis these past few days by people trying to figure out how Mitt Romney could have lost to Barack Obama. Much of the analysis[...]
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