tax rates

In today’s episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with Tax Foundation policy analyst Jared Walczak about a new study comparing states’ business tax rates and tax structures.

America is supposed to be the land of the free, yet it is has one of the most vicious tax regimes in the rich world. Once blessed with comparatively low tax rates and levels of regulation, businesses and entrepreneurs flocked to the United States from the sclerotic systems of Europe (and elsewhere). Now American businesses are fleeing America’s shores and foreign-born entrepreneurs are less inclined to come at all.

Neither President Obama nor any other Democrat ever proposed any middle class tax cut in the fiscal cliff negotiations. All that was ever discussed is continuation of the same middle…

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[Editor’s note: This piece was first published at Forbes.com.] President Obama’s June 14 address in Cleveland presented his foundational economic policy arguments for this fall’s campaign.  We will hear those same rhetorical points…

[Editor’s note: This piece was first published at Forbes.com.] Last week on June 14, President Obama announced his economic plan to finally bring economic recovery and growth to the U.S. in…