Taxes

Big Tech continues to be allowed to gain influence at no cost, while small businesses take the lion’s share of the tax burden.

Fines should not be used as a substitute for taxes.

Government intervention decreases individual liberty and economic freedom.

There are very few things in life more annoying than someone who pretends they are helping us while doing the exact opposite.

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.