Even When Government Power Grabs Are Overturned – The Left Wins
The Barack Obama Administration has been overstepping its Constitutional bounds since just about five minutes after its first inauguration.
Tagged: Taxes
J. M. Keynes: The Damage Still Done by a Defunct Economist
Seventy-eight years ago, on February 4, 1936, the British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) published what soon became his most famous work, “The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.”[...]
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U.S. is Going Bankrupt One City at a Time
Craig and Ponte point to 1913 as the year progressive, collectivist ideas “took control of the United States government and began a ‘fundamental transformation’ of our economy, politics, culture and beliefs that continues today.”
Presidential Hubris in the State of the Union Address
President Obama’s State of the Union address on the night of January 28, 2014 was all about “micro-management.” It was micro-management at one level since he realizes that a divided Congress will not pass any “grand” legislation that he might try to submit.
After the Heinous Farm Bill – What Next?
Something good should come of this farm law heinousness. To set the stage for far less farm bill heinousness five years hence.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
Barack Obama’s Presidency Is A Complete Failure By His Own, Self-Imposed Standards
At the end of 2013, after serving five years, Barack Obama is a complete failure as President, by his own standards, as reflected in his own words.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care · Politics
New Obamacare ‘Fee’ Assails Small Business and Jobs
In case you’re feeling safe and secure from the reaches of ObamaCare, not so fast! Surprises will be in store for you on your insurance premiums and income tax bills.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Random · Taxes
Barack Obama and the Meaning of Socialism
Barack Obama is finishing his fifth year as president, and continues to try to move America further in the direction of increased government paternalism with the implementation of ObamaCare, a push for a higher minimum wage, more intrusive business regulation, a drive for higher taxes to redistribute wealth, and a persistent insistence that individuals must sacrifice their own interests for that of “society.”
Nebraska Needs Real Income Tax Reform
Although at first glance Nebraska’s tax system may appear competitive nationally, it lags behind its regional neighbors, who are its primary competitors for attracting new businesses to the state.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
Obama’s Inequality Fallacies
Inequality is his middle name.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Government · Legal Affairs
High Speed Rail Decision: Victory for Rule of Law
Judge Kenny’s decision means that the state of California cannot ignore its laws, even when its leadership finds them politically inexpedient.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Mike LaFaive- Illinois Could Be Number One in Cigarette Smuggling
In this podcast, Mike LaFaive of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy discusses in greater detail his article on the Heartlander titled “A Tax Hike Al Capone Could Have Loved”. In[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: 10 Principles of Federal Tax Policy
Dan Pilla, author of the Heartland-published Ten Principles of Federal Tax Policy, discusses the current tax system in the United States and how it does not follow any of the ten principles laid out in his book. Pilla is a taxpayer’s rights advocate and has defended countless tax payers against the IRS. He helps individuals and businesses who struggle with our tax problems, which are plentiful.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Liberty · Podcast · Taxes
Heartland Daily Podcast: Mike Stenhouse: Rhode Island Moving Toward Ending Sales Tax
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 · Featured · Taxes
Illinois’ So-called Pension Reform Is Not Real Reform
Illinois may have only one opportunity to get pension reform right, and this proposal is not it. More than likely, this proposal will set back the true fundamental pension reform that is required to protect taxpayers from further tax hikes, give public employees more job flexibility, and put Illinois on a sustainable fiscal path.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Liberty · Regulation
There Are Far Better Alternatives than Taxing Drivers by the Mile
Raise fuel taxes. End diversions of highway funds. Charge a road fee for owners of hybrid and electric cars. Leverage existing federal programs to involve private companies to address highway needs. These all would be better solutions than the hidden and privacy-violating VMT.
Taxpayers Foot The Bill For Study Supporting New Internet Sales Taxes
A new study released by the Small Business Administration funded with taxpayer money examines the effects of Internet sales taxes on small businesses. The study has drawn swift criticism from[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Liberty · Regulation
Part 2: Thorner: Retail Tax Touted by Author as Income Tax Replacement
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
Thorner: Author says Federal Income Tax Unfair; Ignores Sound Economic Policies
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.
School Lunch Expansion: Another Wasteful, Unaffordable Entitlement
Soon, all public schools will be allowed to enroll all students, regardless of need, into a new federal entitlement: “free” school lunches. This is the second year of a three-year rollout for the program, embedded in Michelle Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
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