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Budgets/TaxesPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Donald Larson: E-Cigarettes and Regulatory Overreach
by Jesse Hathaway August 31, 2016In this episode of The Heartland Institute’s weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, research fellow and managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with Donald Larson, a candidate running to represent Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, about his political campaign’s focus on e-cigarettes and regulatory overreach.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Steve Buckstein: Oregon May Become One of the Worst Places to Do Business
by Jesse Hathaway August 3, 2016In this episode of The Heartland Institute’s weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway is joined by Cascade Policy Institute founder and senior policy analyst Steve Buckstein, to talk about Initiative Proposal 28 (IP 28), a ballot question being placed before Oregon voters in November.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Puerto Rico’s Economic Crisis Rooted in History of Feds’ Anti-Trade Policies
by Jesse Hathaway May 22, 2016The missed payment, due on May 1, was just another scene in the slow-motion train wreck that has been termed “Puerto Rico’s economic crisis,” but to call the territory’s status a “crisis” understates the severity of the problem. Over 12 percent of the workforce in Puerto Rico is unemployed, and one out of every four employed Puerto Ricans works for the government, instead of contributing to the territory’s economy.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Government-Owned Internet Projects are a Bad Deal for Taxpayers, Consumers
by Jesse Hathaway May 20, 2016Despite claims of helping low-income earners access the Internet, and thereby joining the digital economic revolution, taxpayer-funded Internet infrastructure projects have a long and expensive history of failing to achieve their stated goals, even though government Internet services enjoy advantages over private businesses.
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Budgets/TaxesEducationFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Teresa Mull: Heartland’s New Research Fellow for Education
by Jesse Hathaway April 27, 2016In this episode of the Heartland Institute’s weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with the newest addition to the Heartland Institute family, Center for School Transformation research fellow Teresa Mull, about how economic freedom and educational freedom are similar, sharing the goal of empowering consumers to make the choices that are right for them, instead of the choices government makes for people.
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FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Brian Blase: Obamacare’s Broken Promises
by Michael Hamilton April 13, 2016In today’s Health Care News Podcast, Brian Blase, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, joined Health Care News Managing Editor Michael Hamilton to discuss the disparity between promises many Americans were told the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would fulfill, and the stunning reality three years into the ACA’s implementation and six years after President Barack Obama signed the ACA into law.
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When one’s actions demonstrably create a worse rather than better outcome net-net, like the FCC’s new Title II ISP privacy policy does, others would justifiably consider it a mistake.
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After months of delays, the office of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio released a long-awaited “impact study” examining the effect of Uber — a popular “peer-to-peer economy” business connecting drivers and riders — on the city’s traffic-flow patterns.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Jared Meyer: Peer-to-Peer Economy Saves Time, Money, and Lives
by Jesse Hathaway February 1, 2016In this episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with Manhattan Institute research fellow Jared Meyer about a recent study commissioned by New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio on the impact of Uber and other peer-to-peer transportation network companies on the city’s ever-present traffic congestion.
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Alleged ‘Consumer Groups’ Oppose Consumers Getting Stuff from Anyone but Government
by Seton Motley January 21, 2016One thing at which the Left is very good is naming things – so as to hide and obfuscate what these things actually do. Because if they admitted what these things actually do – they would poll…well, right where Congress is polling.