Downsize the Liberals
Washington state is conservative, except for Seattle, which delivers the entire state’s electoral votes for the most left-wing plausible candidate every four years. The same is true of Oregon, except[...]
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Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics
Other People’s Children: Part Two
In the race to the financial bottom the State of Illinois vies nicely with several other states, including (depending on the precise year involved) California, New York, and Ohio, with[...]
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Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Internet/Telecom
Does America Need an Internet Tax?
“If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” In those three pithy phrases, Ronald Reagan summarized the essence of government.
An Inconvenient Federalism: Marriage and Religious Liberty
Cato’s Jonathan Adler, writing in Reason, gives a more eloquent version of the argument I’ve advanced in the past about the perils of tossing federalism aside on the marriage issue.[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Taxes
California, Illinois Double Down on Big Government
[First published in the Orange County Register.] A few days after the big election, and the smoke is clearing. We’re beginning to see the most consequential vote of Nov. 6[...]
Illinois Medicaid Needs Real Reform
States across the country continue to be fiscally-suffocated by debt from health entitlement programs, especially Medicaid. The State of Illinois has sought ways to curb it’s deficit, but few have[...]
Court Case Shows the Evil of Illinois State Government
As a lifelong Illinois resident, I long ago came to believe that my state government is more than corrupt, incompetent, inept, wasteful, abusive, etc. It is evil. Last Thursday I[...]
Economics · FIRE · Liberty · Politics · Regulation · Taxes
Amazon.com: The Taxman Cometh
In the midst of state budgetary turmoil, it is not surprising that legislators are turning to unconstitutional regulatory measures in the pursuit of a few extra tax dollars. Arkansas, Connecticut,[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Politics · Taxes
Illinois Wants to Use 10% of Its Record Tax Hike . . . for Just Two Companies!
If Illinois citizens needed any further evidence of the contempt this state’s leaders have for us, here it is in this Chicago Tribune headline and subheadline: CME, Sears tax break[...]
Heartland’s Bruno Behrend on Chicago Fox 5, Talking Illinois Budget Cuts
The state of Illinois is in trouble. We’re the California of the Midwest — and it’s not because we have lovely beaches. We’re moving faster every day to becoming the same[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics
Huge Tax Increase, Huge Jobs Losses in Illinois
From our friends at the Illinois Policy Institute today comes a telling, telling chart with a brief report documenting what they, we at The Heartland Institute and many others warned[...]
Chicago-Based Heartland Institute Reacts to Blagojevich Guilty Verdicts
Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was found guilty today on 17 of 20 counts in his corruption trial in federal court. Maureen Martin, senior fellow for legal affairs at Heartland,[...]
Illinois Treasurer to Gov. Quinn: You’re Cut Off, We’re Broke!
One year ago, I moved from the fiscal basket case that is the state of California to the second-worst-fiscal-basket-case state of Illinois. (I sure know how to pick ‘em!) The[...]
Pensions Are the Problem
My colleague at The Heartland Institute, Eli Lehrer wrote a rather controversial op-ed for the Weekly Standard recently arguing that “Pensions Aren’t the Problem.” Eli’s piece makes some good points[...]
Wisconsin Lawmakers Flee South of the Border — to Illinois!
The government shutdown in Wisconsin has been a boon to tourism in Illinois. Talk about unintended consequences of government actions! Democrat lawmakers in Wisconsin have failed to show up for[...]
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