Taxes

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.

We like taxing businesses because they appear rich.  Yet the question of who truly pays business taxes is very complicated. 

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

Evidence is growing that climate alarmists — those peddling the delusion that human-caused climate change is destroying the Earth — are growing ever more desperate.

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

In a town hall in front of her Bronx constituents, Ocasio-Cortez, the self-avowed socialist, decreed, “It’s not that we deserve it because it’s a handout. People like to say, ‘Oh, this is about free stuff.’ This is not about free stuff.”

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 and Jim Lakely in episode #203 of the In The Tank Podcast. This episode features work from the Heartland Institute, the Tax Foundation, and the Cato Institute.

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

Our existing political systems evolved at a time of much more gradual social, economic and technological change and to restrain excessive government they were designed to be cumbersome.

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.

“First comes freedom,” said Pete Buttigieg while announcing his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president on April 14. 

The Alabama legislature kicked off its new term with a special session to increase the gas tax, a result which seemed foreordained.  Nonetheless, the gas tax raises interesting economic and political considerations.