budget

In Uncle Sam’s 2020 fiscal year that began on October 1, 2019, it is estimated that the federal government will spend around $4.4 trillion, of which about $1 trillion will be with borrowed money to cover the budget deficit of that amount.

A bipartisan majority of the 535 federal lawmakers who roam the halls of the House and Senate agreed on one big thing: spending $1.4 trillion on discretionary programs for the coming fiscal year.

The House of Representatives’ Democrat majority FY2020 budget includes refunding the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.

Cutting taxes — as opposed to restraining the growth in future tax increases or swapping a reduction in property taxes for an increase in the state sales tax — appears to be a nearly insurmountable obstacle.

Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr in episode #189 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the Property & Environment Research Center, the American Enterprise Institute, the Reason Foundation, and The Heartland Institute.

Heartland’s Donald Kendal and Justin Haskins are joined by Isaac Orr in episode #179 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the American Legislative Exchange Council, Institute for Justice, Institute for Energy Research, and The Heritage Foundation.

In 2018, all federal appropriation bills (with bipartisan support) have passed out of their respective committees.

Donny Kendal presents episode #156 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week’s episode features work from the California Policy Center, the Reason Foundation, and The Heartland Institute.

In case you have missed them since the early years of the Obama administration, the $1 trillion-a-year federal budget deficits are coming back, beginning with Uncle Sam’s new fiscal year for 2019, which starts on October 1, 2018. And they might not be going away anytime soon.

I’m incessantly harangued by pin heads – about everything.

“We could say the government spends like drunken sailors – but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. Because the sailors are spending their own money.”

President Donald Trump has proposed a trillion-dollar plan for infrastructure investment. 

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #123 of the In The Tank Podcast. In this special episode, Heartland Institute experts grade President Trump on his first year in office.