Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Podcast
Competitive Enterprise Institute Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia joins The Heartland Institute’s Budget and Tax News managing editor Jesse Hathaway to talk about the Marketplace Fairness Act, a proposed “Internet sales tax” receiving heated debate during the recently concluded past session of Congress.
Last year, the U.S. Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), a plan to allow local and state governments to collect sales taxes on retailers outside their jurisdiction, with 15 Republican senators joining 54 Democrats to support shaking down online retailers for more tax revenue.
Tomorrow the House Judiciary Committee will hold the hearing “Exploring Alternative Solutions on the Internet Sales Tax Issue.” Taking some time to explore the Constitutional challenges of current proposals which mandate the collection of taxes by businesses across state lines and an examining the potential for the radical expansion of government would be a good place to focus.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Liberty · Podcast · Taxes
End the sales tax? Are you crazy? No says Mike Stenhouse, CEO of the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity. In fact, Rhode Island might be the first state ever to end a sales tax.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Liberty · Regulation
The clock is ticking. Hopefully politics won’t impede the way forward until such a time when this nation can no longer be rescued from it self-imposed downfall, precipitated by an all-powerful, reckless government whose goal it is to please what has become a nation of greedy, government-dependent Americans.
Featured · Speaker Series · Taxes
Standing by itself, Pilla’s Ten Principles of Federal Tax Policy is one in a series of eight other brief guides in Heartland’s Legislative Principles Series, each having its own set of principles central to its topic of debate.
Congress has considered many bills over the past few years that, like the Marketplace Fairness Act, would expand states’ ability to force out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes regardless of[…]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Taxes
The Internet has flourished as a generally tax free zone and an enormous boon to our entire economy. We should keep it that way.
Budgets/Taxes · Internet/Telecom
Backers of the federal Marketplace Fairness Act estimate it would generate another $23 billion of annual revenue for states. Of course, another way to look at the law is to[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Education · Environment/Energy · FIRE · Health Care · Internet/Telecom
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Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Environment/Energy · Taxes
Regarding Peter Ferrara’s recent post: I often talk about taxes being the price for government services. The idea was introduced to the profession in 1896 by Knut Wicksell. He added[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Education · Taxes
On today’s Heartland Daily Podcast … Talmadge Heflin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation recently spent more than one hour testifying before and answering questions from a state panel regarding a proposal[…]
Economics · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Taxes
The Marketplace Fairness Act; with that kind of title it must have been pulled word for word from one of those Ayn Rand novels. It is a little chilling to[…]
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