Taxes

Fines should not be used as a substitute for taxes.

Climate alarmism provides an excuse for increased taxation of fossil fuel companies, which inevitably shift this cost burden to the consumer.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.