spending

The government and Fed are over a barrel. The federal debt is now over $30 trillion. But the Fed’s only way to address runaway inflation? Raising interest rates.

Can we guess who will get the lion’s share of all of this DC money? DC’s biggest cronies, of course.

Banks are shouldering a cost burden towards regulatory compliance that could be used to fund Biden’s spending plans.

Biden’s money printing spree enabled by the Federal Reserve will have drastic long-term consequences.

Unprecedented federal spending on education is a swindle of epic proportions.

The Congressional Budget Office has recently issued a federal “Budget Outlook Update”

Today bigger, supremely powerful global governments are justified by environmental claims.

Cutting taxes — as opposed to restraining the growth in future tax increases or swapping a reduction in property taxes for an increase in the state sales tax — appears to be a nearly insurmountable obstacle.

Mediocrity has become normalized and institutionalized.

If only I had a dime for every time I have heard the claim America needs to spend more money on education.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #92 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the John Locke Foundation, the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, and the Cato Institute.

A U.S. Department of Education study conducted at the end of Obama’s tenure finds what has been obvious for the past decades: substantial federal spending alongside strict regulation helps schools improve not one iota.

In 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.