Wide Support for Internet Access Tax Moratorium
The Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1998 was designed to promote the growth of the Internet by placing a moratorium on state and local taxation of Internet access and the[...]
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Budgets/Taxes · Environment/Energy · Featured · Taxes
Bag the Plastic Bag Tax
Legislators in Harrisburg are considering a proposal from state Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Wayne, that would make Pennsylvania the first state to impose a statewide tax on the use of plastic bags.
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Economics · Featured · Liberty · Random · Taxes
Barack Obama and the Meaning of Socialism
Barack Obama is finishing his fifth year as president, and continues to try to move America further in the direction of increased government paternalism with the implementation of ObamaCare, a push for a higher minimum wage, more intrusive business regulation, a drive for higher taxes to redistribute wealth, and a persistent insistence that individuals must sacrifice their own interests for that of “society.”
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Liberty · Podcast · Taxes
Heartland Daily Podcast: Mike Stenhouse: Rhode Island Moving Toward Ending Sales Tax
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 · Featured · Taxes
Illinois’ So-called Pension Reform Is Not Real Reform
Illinois may have only one opportunity to get pension reform right, and this proposal is not it. More than likely, this proposal will set back the true fundamental pension reform that is required to protect taxpayers from further tax hikes, give public employees more job flexibility, and put Illinois on a sustainable fiscal path.
Taxpayers Foot The Bill For Study Supporting New Internet Sales Taxes
A new study released by the Small Business Administration funded with taxpayer money examines the effects of Internet sales taxes on small businesses. The study has drawn swift criticism from[...]
Featured · Speaker Series · Taxes
Thorner: Author says Federal Income Tax Unfair; Ignores Sound Economic Policies
Standing by itself, Pilla’s Ten Principles of Federal Tax Policy is one in a series of eight other brief guides in Heartland’s Legislative Principles Series, each having its own set of principles central to its topic of debate.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Speaker Series · Taxes
Heartland Speaker Series: Dan Pilla and the 10 Principles of Federal Tax Policy
The Heartland Institute’s author series hosted Dan Pilla, author of the Heartland-published Ten Principles of Federal Tax Policy on November 14. Pilla is a taxpayer’s rights advocate and has defended countless tax[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Taxes
“Supplemental” Poverty Measure Shows Uneven Redistribution of Poverty by Government
The release of a supplemental poverty measure by the Census Bureau is being touted as the government is not doing enough to ameliorate poverty in the country… But the real problem is that the government is already doing too much.
Education · Featured · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
Why Bill De Blasio’s Election Won’t Change NYC Schools
Even if Randi Weingarten isn’t NYC’s next school chancellor, she might as well be.
Featured · Regulation · Taxes
City Hall Legislating in the Shadows
[Mayor] Bloomberg stands accused of not letting the public see how his team made various nanny-state laws and regulations from his (failed) soda ban to his rules against donating food to city-run homeless shelters.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Taxes
My Advice to Californians; Get Out Now
Get out now while you can afford the gas to load up the van and head north or east.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Regulation · Taxes
Heartland Speaker Series: Travis H. Brown “How Money Walks”
The people are speaking with the movement of their wallets.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Taxes
Heartland’s John Nothdurft on Fox 32; On the Proposed Cigarette Tax Increase
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 · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
With Its Soda Tax, Mexico Repeats The Mistakes Of Mayor Bloomberg:If Obesity Could be Outlawed, it Wouldn’t be a Problem
By the middle of October, if everything stays on schedule, Mexico’s legislators may well prove that they haven’t learned a thing from policies that have been tried and failed, from Denmark to New York City.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Taxes
Five Steps for a Larger Economic Pie
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.
Turning Smokers Into Criminals
The same hucksters and frauds that tell you that 0.039% by volume of the carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere poses a huge threat to all life and those claiming that the presence of arsenic in tobacco smoke is a health threat are dependent on public ignorance.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
A Short Guide to Obamacare
It’s not a national healthcare system. It’s not the free market. It isn’t what we’ve had for the last forty years. So what is Obamacare? Maybe I am too late[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Liberty · Taxes
Voters Don’t Want the “Marketplace Fairness Act”
A survey conducted by the R-Street Institute and the National Taxpayers Union shows that voters across the ideological spectrum oppose the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA). If signed into law, the[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics · Taxes
DOE Hid Info About Loan Recipient’s Bad Condition in April House Hearing
In a typical Obama administration “hope-they-don’t-notice” Friday announcement, DOE told American taxpayers that $42 million dollars won’t be paid back.
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