Keeping our Eyes on the Prize
Everyone is talking about Paul Ryan, picked by Mitt Romney to be his running mate, and who can blame them? It isn’t hard to see that our country has been[...]
Tagged: budget
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
Peter Ferrara on CNBC talking about Paul Ryan’s Budget, Medicare Reform Ideas
On Monday afternoon, Heartland Institute Senior Fellow for Entitlement and Budget Policy Peter Ferrara, was on CNBC to talk about Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan’s proposals to rein in out-of-control spending[...]
Money for Nutting and No Chicks for Free: Obama’s Spending Binge Really Happened
(This essay was first published at The American Spectator. Editor: Half-hearted apologies to Dire Straits for the headline.) Obama campaign operative Rex Nutting surprised a lot of people with an[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Politics · Taxes
Wisconsin Controls Spending and Taxes, Goes from Deficit to Surplus
Not that we expect the clowns and criminals who run state government in neighboring Illinois to care, but we do hope, for a moment at least, they cast their collective[...]
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[...]
Economics · Education · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Media · Regulation
Chris Christie and the Privatization of Public Broadcasting
A recent article in InfoTech & Telecom News by Loren Heal examines Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s decision to cut a further 16 percent of the state’s public broadcasting budget, bringing[...]
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[...]
Weed, Fights, and Whine in Madison
In the aftermath of the union protests in Madison in February and March, some recent updates: * About 90 matters, mostly death threats against state officials, were referred to the[...]
Indiana Parent Trigger Bill Blindsided by Eleventh-Hour Rewrite
If you had asked me earlier this week if I thought Indiana’s SB 496, the Parent Trigger Act, would face any difficulty in conference, I would have said, in so[...]
Anti-Walker Union Protesters Cost Wisconsin Taxpayers Big Bucks
In the aftermath of this winter’s union protests in Madison and related events, Wisconsinites are beginning to do the math, and they don’t like the huge numbers one single bit.[...]
Today’s Obama Speech: Nearly as Deceitful as it was Dull
My initial reactions to Obama’s speech: 1) Dull, dull, dull! Nothing inspiring or even interesting. 2) He spent more time and gave more detail attacking the opposing plan than he[...]
Budget Deal Shows Republicans and Democrats are Two Wings of the Same Bird
Is anyone surprised that last Friday’s budget deal to avert a government shutdown (most of the government would have kept going) is being shown to be a sham? Thirty-eight billion[...]
States Are Smart to Cut Cigarette Taxes
After decades of increasing tobacco taxes at the federal, state, and local levels, some states are beginning to buck this fiscally burdensome and irresponsible trend. On March 17, the New[...]
Government shutdown? If only!
Headlines in newspapers across the country today declare we are on the verge of a “government shutdown” because the Republicrats and Demoplicans cannot agree on whether to cut an infinitesimal[...]
Politics · Regulation · Taxes
Postscripts to America’s Uncommon Sense
Reactions to recent events, cross-posted at America’s Uncommon Sense: Budget and National Debt If not now, when? If not the House, who? These two questions lie at the core of[...]
An iPad Subsidy for Teens?
As someone tasked with keeping up on research in two arenas — education policy and tech policy — my job always get a lot easier when the issues merge. Sometimes,[...]
Whose Rhetoric Is Dangerous, Again?
Progressives tweet their wishes for assassination of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a Republican: Heartland Institute Director of Research S. T. Karnick also edits The American Culture, where this article first[...]
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Readable Links- Kirsten Powers: Liberals' mob rule
- Charles Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol - The Washington Post
- Thoughtcrime at Mozilla — Jonathan Last Online
- A Conversation Between Milton Friedman and Gary Becker
- Organic activists need GMOs now more than ever
- Bullies drove Eich from public square: Column
- Jonah Goldberg: Climate activists uncaged
