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In The Tank (ep170) – Christmas Time!, Socialist Green New Deal, and the First Step Act
by Donald Kendal December 21, 2018Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft are joined by Justin Haskins in episode #170 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the Tax Foundation, the Illinois Policy Institute, and the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
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Budgets/TaxesGovernment
Why Alabama Should Reform Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws
by Matthew Glans February 22, 2018Private property rights are one of the fundamental tenets of our Republic.
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In The Tank (ep115) – The Left’s Anti-Human Population Engineering Plan, and Tax Reform
by Donald Kendal November 17, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #115 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features input from Director of Communications Jim Lakely, Director of Publications Sam Karnick, as well as work from the Tax Foundation.
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Peter Ferrara on SiriusXM: Reforming Social Security
by Andy Singer October 23, 2017Peter Ferrara speaks on SiriusXM of his past and current efforts to reform Social Security.
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In The Tank (ep75) – Automating the Government, Net Metering, and Eliminating the Dept of Education
by Donald Kendal February 10, 2017John Nothdurft is MIA, so joining Donny Kendal is Heartland policy analyst Tim Benson. Donny and Tim present episode #75 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from Reform UK, the Heartland Institute, and the American Federation for Children.
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Environment/EnergyPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Bill Kovacs: Unfunded Mandates Undermine the Constitution, State Autonomy and Our Economic Well-Being
by H. Sterling Burnett October 4, 2016A recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce study shows the Obama administration is ignoring the law by imposing an increasing number of unfunded mandates on the states without first assessing their economic impact or carrying out a required cost benefit analysis.
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In The Tank Podcast (ep52): Nevada Policy Research Institute, Freedom in the 50 States, 20 Anniv of Welfare Reform
by Donald Kendal August 19, 2016John and Donny continue their weekly exploration of think tanks across the country in episode #52 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Nevada Research Institute, the Cato Institute, the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity, and The Heartland Institute.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Barry Poulson: Can Fiscal Rules Fix The American Government?
by Donald Kendal August 10, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Dr. Barry Poulson, Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado and advisor to the Task Force on Tax and Fiscal Policy at the American Legislative Exchange Council, joins the show to talk about America’s debt crisis.
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The Legislature is preparing to embroil itself in a special session after the Kansas Supreme Court threatened to close public schools over a funding dispute amounting to less than 1 percent of the state’s education budget. Gov. Sam Brownback and like-minded state lawmakers are considered by many in the media to be the enemy here, and that shouldn’t be a surprise. Have you ever heard of an elected official who is praised for cutting education spending?
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Lately, education scholars at Washington, D.C.-based, nominally conservative think tanks have spun themselves into a tizzy about the education reform movement’s splintering into quarreling factions.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Adam Michel: How the Tax Code Holds Back Prosperity
by Jesse Hathaway June 7, 2016In this episode of The Heartland Institute’s weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with Mercatus Center at George Mason University Spending and Budget Initiative program manager Adam Michel about a new study on which he collaborated, about how the U.S. tax code is holding back the nation’s prosperity-building power, and how common-sense tax reforms could unleash the nation’s economic beast and make America great again.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Daniel Dew: Criminal Justice Reform
by Jesse Hathaway May 31, 2016In this episode of the weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions criminal justice fellow Daniel Dye about criminal justice reform, debunking some of the myths around this new idea.
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Occupational Licensing Reform: Walk, Don’t Run
by Thomas Hemphill March 5, 2016Advocates of occupational licensure argue that it protects the public interest by excluding incompetent and unethical individuals from sensitive jobs. This is certainly the case in some fields, such as health care — but in general, research reveals weak evidence that licensure confers a tangible benefit on public safety or the overall quality of services provided to consumers. What it mainly does is increase costs: Kleiner estimates that licensing increases prices 5 to 33 percent, depending on the occupation and geographic location.