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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPodcastRegulation
In The Tank (ep111) – State Business Tax Climate, Soda Tax Fail, Conservation Easements
by Donald Kendal October 20, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #111 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Tax Foundation, the Illinois Policy Institute, The Property and Environment Research Center, and the Fraser Institute.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedHealth CarePodcast
In The Tank (ep72) – Trump’s Inauguration, Cigarette Black Market, and the Obamacare Replacement Act
by Donald Kendal January 20, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #72 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Tax Foundation and the Heartland Institute.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Pokemon Go Re-Reveals The Left’s Anti-Free Market, Pro-Government Fetish
by Seton Motley July 22, 2016Congratulations to Google on Pokemon Go. Google’s parent company Alphabet incubated and spun out this latest highly successful data-collection-device – for sale to advertisers everywhere.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Goobris: Google Expecting Less Privacy Regulation than its Competitors
by Scott Cleland May 15, 2016Why does the company that by far collects the most private information that the FCC claims it wants to protect, and that also has the worst consumer privacy protection record with the FTC, (Google), get 99% exempted from the telecom and cable privacy protections expected of telephone, broadband, cable and satellite providers?
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A new report from the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan government agency tasked with auditing, evaluating, and investigating government affairs for Congress, faults the Internal Revenue Service for failing to properly secure taxpayer data, leaving taxpayers’ private information at the mercy of hackers, both domestic and foreign. The report, delivered to IRS chief John Koskinen on March 28, says the IRS has failed to make recommended improvements to its financial and information-technology procedures.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Dustin Chambers: Regulations Act Like a Regressive Tax
by Jesse Hathaway March 8, 2016In this episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with Salisbury University associate professor of economics Dustin Chambers about a new paper published by the Mercatus Center, examining how federal regulations affect the prices of consumer goods, and consumers themselves.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedLibertyPodcast
In The Tank Podcast (ep27): James Madison Institute, Regressive Regulations, and the Apple Decryption Debate
by Donald Kendal February 26, 2016Hosts Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft continue to explore the world of think tanks in episode #27 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, roundtable discussions, stories, and light-hearted segments on a variety of topics on the latest news. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. Today’s podcast features work from the James Madison Institute, the Mercatus Center, the John Locke Foundation, the American Energy Alliance, and Reason.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Consumer Confusion over FCC’s Arbitrary Privacy Policymaking
by Scott Cleland February 18, 2016Let me try to explain to a consumer what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) arbitrarily has done, and apparently intends to do, for consumer internet privacy protection going forward.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Berin Szoka: Government’s Fight Against Zero-Rating and Consumer Choice
by Jesse Hathaway January 13, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with Berin Szoka, president of TechFreedom, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting the progress of technology that improves the human condition, about how regulators both at home and abroad are using the power of the state to combat zero-rating, a kind of sponsored-data plan where access to popular web applications like Facebook or streaming video services is made available to consumer at no cost.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
The Government Must Stop Printing Phoney Money
by Richard Ebeling January 5, 2016If advocates of freedom were to make up a list of New Year’s resolutions for 2016, one of the most important items should be ending government’s monopoly control over money. In a free society, people in the marketplace should decide what they wish to use as money, not the government.