Press Releases: Budgets and Taxes

Heartland Institute Reacts to Projected Wisconsin Budget Surplus

May 11, 2012
Steve Stanek
Maureen Martin

Projections by the Wisconsin Department of Administration show the state is expected to finish the two-year budget cycle with a surplus.

Heartland Institute Reacts to Monday Night Vote on Vikings Stadium Plan

May 08, 2012
Joseph Bast
Steve Stanek

Recent Heartland Study Outlines the Folly of ‘Sport Stadium Madness’

Cook County Municipalities Face Fiscal Ruin

March 12, 2012
John Nothdurft

MARCH 12, 2012 – An analysis of records obtained from the Cook County Treasurer’s Office reveal

Heartland Institute Experts React to Obama’s 2013 Budget

February 13, 2012
Joe Cobb
Steve Stanek
Benjamin Domenech

President Barack Obama on Monday released his 2013 budget, which includes $3.8 trillion in spending over 10 years.

Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Testifies Today Before House

February 01, 2012
Peter Ferrara

FEB 1, 2012 -- Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara, author of America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, is testifying today at a hearing of the full House Committee on Small Business.

Chicago-based Heartland Institute Reacts to Anniversary of Illinois Tax Hike

January 12, 2012
Steve Stanek
John Nothdurft

One year ago today, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a tax package that raised personal income taxes by 67 percent and corporate taxes by 46 percent.

Heartland Institute Scholars React to President Obama’s Recess Appointments

January 05, 2012
Maureen Martin
Richard Esenberg

President Barack Obama this week put Richard Cordray on the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Sharon Block, Terence Flynn, and Richard Griffin on the National Labor Relations Board, all

Heartland Institute Reacts to Possible Shutdown of Federal Government

December 15, 2011
Steve Stanek

Congress must pass a spending measure by midnight Friday or more than a half-million federal employees will be furloughed.

Heartland Institute Reacts to November Unemployment Numbers

December 02, 2011
Steve Stanek
S.T. Karnick

The Bureau of Labor Statistics today announced that just 120,000 new jobs were created in November, putting the unemployment rate at 8.6. percent.