Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
In a hard fought election campaign, voters in the city of Tigard appear to have narrowly enacted another barrier to light rail expansion in suburban Portland. The Washington County Elections Division reported that with 100 percent of precincts counted, Charter Amendment 34-210 had obtained 51 percent of the vote, compared to 49 percent opposed.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Podcast
Steve Stanek says the most recent federal budget deal is meaningless! It’s a scam, a sham, a fraud! Congress hasn’t had an actual budget since 2009, and they barely have one now.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government
As a longtime book reviewer, I have read a growing stack of books warning about a financial collapse, but Holland’s book is not only based in the actual debt, but is written in a manner that even a person who has no knowledge of this issue can understand.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Liberty · Podcast · Taxes
End the sales tax? Are you crazy? No says Mike Stenhouse, CEO of the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity. In fact, Rhode Island might be the first state ever to end a sales tax.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Taxes
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing to increase the city’s cigarette tax by $.75 a pack, which would raise the combined local and state tax rate to $7.42 a pack- the highest in the nation. The video above, by Fox 32, features the Heartland Institute’s John Nothdurft and his brief, yet powerful, opinion on the proposed tax increase.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Taxes
The ongoing battles in Washington over the government shutdown and the debt ceiling are merely symptoms of a raging disease wracking the body politic: terminal government obesity.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
Everyone is so sure of their opinion. But almost no one knows anything about it. With most of the news media actually participating in the partisan political wrangling, instead of[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Education · Featured · Liberty · Politics · Taxes
“In America, we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.”
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
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
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 · Economics · Education · Environment/Energy · Featured
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[...]
In recent weeks, Illinois legislators have considered several major pension reform proposals. Several pieces of legislation were considered by legislators that attempted to take some positive steps towards controlling costs[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Health Care · Politics
In the aftermath of the 2012 elections, Republicans took solace in the idea that while the GOP isn’t doing well in Washington, it’s winning in emphatic fashion elsewhere. Republicans have[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Education · Environment/Energy · FIRE
You’re a reader of this blog, so you are a part of the conversation at The Heartland Institute, one of America’s most influential free-market think tanks. The posts here reflect[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics
Get ready for the Ryan/Biden showdown Thursday night by reviewing this new Policy Brief by Peter Ferrara, senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at The Heartland Institute. By selecting[...]
The pension system in Illinois is broke, both literally and structurally. According to Bloomberg, while the national median funding ratio for state pension systems is around 71.7 percent (for the[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE
In a recent editorial in The Wall Street Journal, a group of prominent economic experts took the government to task for many of its current poor fiscal and monetary decisions[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
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[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Taxes
[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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