Taxes

For decades, the state that has been dominated by one-party that has been laying the foundation for a budget catastrophe.

Taxing the rich has seemed to be one of the Band-Aid solutions for California’s budget, but that’s dangerous as seventy percent of the General Fund is already provided by personal taxes on just five percent of the population.

Apparently, Mayor Lightfoot is willing to cast aside her progressive values in a rather desperate attempt to tackle the city’s out-of-control debt by nickel and diming her constituents.

Washington, DC has spent decades in bipartisan fashion making the lives of our farmers more and more miserable

Tom Petty’s 1989 hit song Free Fallin’ could very well become Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) campaign anthem.

The new Prop. 13, very much unlike the iconic original, hurts taxpayers.

Warren is resorting to her old, tired class-warfare tactics to gain support for her insane Medicare for All plan. Hopefully, Americans will see right through this socialist sham. Otherwise, they will have 52 trillion reasons to wish they had.

The latest survey of small business contains a surprise. Or maybe it is not a surprise if you are or know a small business owner.

Heartland’s Donald Kendal and Justin Haskins are joined by Isaac Orr in episode #202 of the In The Tank Podcast. This episode features work from the Cato Institute, the State Policy Network, The Heartland Institute, and Tax Foundation.

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

In an effort to improve the science used by regulatory agencies, the Trump administration has made, and is still making, adjustments in the way the EPA works.

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.

Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr in episode #189 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the Property & Environment Research Center, the American Enterprise Institute, the Reason Foundation, and The Heartland Institute.