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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – John Eick: What is ALEC?
by H. Sterling Burnett February 11, 2015In today’s edition of the Heartland Daily podcast, Managing Editor of Environment & Climate News H. Sterling Burnett talks with John Eick. Eick is the Director of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Obama Administration Kicks the Oil-and-Gas Industry While it is Down
by Marita Noon January 5, 2015For the past six years, the oil and gas industry has served as a savior to the Obama presidency by providing the near-lone bright spot in economic growth.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Rethinking Taxation: The Automated Payment Transaction Tax
by John Engle May 30, 2014The collecting of taxes is always a sticky subject for proponents of the free market to address. This is due to their natural tendency to spurn taxes in general. Yet, if change to the current unfair, prosperity-stifling tax regime is to occur, we need to offer a meaningful solution beyond the simple call to reduce taxes and spending (appealing as they might be). One solution that might go a long way toward improving how the government collects taxes is the Automated Payment Transaction Tax (APT tax).
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedPolitics
Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Passing of the Age of Obama
by Peter Ferrara May 19, 2014Conservatives need to wake up and start thinking past the rapidly passing age of Obama.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeatured
Where the U.S. Economy Is Going, and Why
by Edmund Contoski January 20, 2014The full bill for Obama’s failed economic policies has yet to arrive. But no such explosion of debt has ever escaped a day of reckoning, and no such monetary surge has ever had a happy ending.
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EconomicsFeatured
Why Economic Growth Is Exponentially More Important Than Income Inequality
by Peter Ferrara January 16, 2014Achieving and sustaining such economic growth should be the central focus of national economic policy, for it would solve every problem that plagues and threatens us today.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedHealth CarePolitics
Obama Changes The Subject Away From Obamacare, Whiffs On Income Inequality
by Peter Ferrara December 17, 2013Earlier this month, President Obama tried to change the subject from Obamacare by pitching some rhetoric on “equality” to rally his Far Left base. Not much thoughtful or helpful is…
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Inequality is his middle name.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeatured
Economies, National Debts and Gold
by Edmund Contoski September 16, 2013A general optimism prevails in the United States and Europe that the economies have finally turned the corner and growth is resuming. Don’t get too excited.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedRandomUncategorized
The Government Should Stop Trying to Create Jobs
by Matt Faherty August 27, 2013I cringe every time I hear a politician or pundit talk about how a certain policy will create or destroy jobs. Yes, I get why it’s done; the unemployment rate…
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EconomicsFeaturedPolitics
Economically, Could Obama Be America’s Worst President?
by Peter Ferrara June 3, 2013As the Wall Street Journal summarized in its August 25-26, 2012 weekend edition, “For household income, in other words, the Obama recovery has been worse than the Bush recession.”
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPolitics
The Age Of Unreason: Senate Democrat Budget Mythology
by Peter Ferrara April 2, 2013Recent Republican budget proposals have cut taxes on the rich and asked the middle class to pick up the tab? When was the last time any Republican proposed to increase taxes on the middle class?
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Everything in this column will be established by logical proof, as in geometry. There will be no name calling, or mere assertion. You probably heard again the other night in…