Taxes
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Budgets/TaxesGovernment
California’s Forecasted Budget Deficit Decades in the Making
by Ronald Stein May 14, 2020For decades, the state that has been dominated by one-party that has been laying the foundation for a budget catastrophe.
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Government
Questionable California Priorities Are About to Hit Pocket Books
by Ronald Stein April 17, 2020Taxing 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.
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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.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
US Farmers Know – DC Doesn’t: Trump Remains Farmers’ Best Friend
by Seton Motley January 14, 2020Washington, DC has spent decades in bipartisan fashion making the lives of our farmers more and more miserable
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FeaturedGovernment
Time for Sen. Warren to Crank Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’
by Chris Talgo January 8, 2020Tom Petty’s 1989 hit song Free Fallin’ could very well become Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) campaign anthem.
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The new Prop. 13, very much unlike the iconic original, hurts taxpayers.
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Health Care
52 Trillion Reasons to Oppose Warren’s Medicare for All Plan
by Chris Talgo December 5, 2019Warren 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.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
What Vexes Small Business More than Taxes and Regulations?
by Jeffrey Tucker September 12, 2019The latest survey of small business contains a surprise. Or maybe it is not a surprise if you are or know a small business owner.
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In The Tank (ep202) – Craziest Proposals From Democratic Candidates
by Donald Kendal August 2, 2019Heartland’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.
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Today bigger, supremely powerful global governments are justified by environmental claims.
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Climate Change
Trump’s Climate Modeling Reform Scorches His Critics
by H. Sterling Burnett July 3, 2019In 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.
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Budgets/Taxes
Texas Lawmakers Looking to Cut Taxes Should Control Spending First
by Joe Barnett June 13, 2019Cutting 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.
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In The Tank (ep189) – Terrible Earth Day Predictions, Socialism, and Free to Choose Medicine
by Donald Kendal May 3, 2019Heartland’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.