Opinion
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Government Job-Guarantee Policies Guarantee Nothing but Fewer Jobs
Opinion -Job-guarantee proposals have dominated headlines of late, with high-profile politicians such as Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) advancing the policy. -
Don’t Let the Postal Service Kill E-Commerce
Opinion -E-commerce has revolutionized the economy, giving consumers access to every imaginable product, at the best prices, without leaving their homes. -
Heartland Weekly: Heartland on NewsmaxTV
Opinion -Week of August 20, 2018 -
Is a Financial Crisis Inevitable?
Opinion -How debt is shaping up to be our undoing. -
Tampa Bay Rays Continue Search for Ballpark Financing
Opinion -The Tampa Bay Rays Major League Baseball (MLB) team is planning to build an $892 million stadium in the city’s Ybor City neighborhood, possibly financed with a mixture of private and taxpayer money. -
New York Assemblyman Proposes Janus ‘Workaround’
Opinion -New York state Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (D¬¬¬–Manhattan) announced he will sponsor a bill to allow public-sector unions in the state to receive taxpayer funding to reimburse the costs of collective bargaining and contract administration. -
Numerous Texas School Staff Members Earn Six-Figure Salaries, Study Finds
Opinion -Some 7,000 Texas government school staff and teachers account for $1 billion in annual costs to local and state taxpayers, a new report states. -
Bartow County, Georgia Exits Medical Transport Business
Opinion -Bartow County, Georgia commissioners have privatized their public ambulance service. -
Domino’s Pizza Delivers Infrastructure Grant for Fitchburg, MA
Opinion -Domino’s Pizza is donating $5,000 to the City of Fitchburg, Massachusetts to fund pothole and road infrastructure repairs in the city. -
Chicago Alderman Proposes UBI Experiment
Opinion -Chicago alderman Ameya Pawar (D–Ward 47) is calling for the city government to study the idea of a government-administered universal basic income (UBI) pilot program to provide 1,000 families with a $500 payment every month. -
South Boston, Virginia Proposes Cig Tax to Fund Government Pay Hikes
Opinion -The South Boston, Virginia City Council is considering levying a tax on tobacco sales in the city to fund pay hikes for city government employees and pad general revenue. -
Rubio Introduces Taxpayer-Financed Parental Paid-Leave Bill
Opinion -The U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would use Social Security to finance a new paid parental-leave benefit for couples with new children. -
Congress Approves Agricultural Subsidy Bill, Though Differences Remain
Opinion -With both chambers of Congress having approved House Resolution 2 (H.R. 2), also known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 or the “farm bill,” a congressional conference committee will reconcile differences between the two versions. -
$1 Trillion Deficits and the Crisis of the Entitlement State
Opinion -In case you have missed them since the early years of the Obama administration, the $1 trillion-a-year federal budget deficits are coming back, beginning with Uncle Sam’s new fiscal year for 2019, which starts on October 1, 2018. -
Heartland Weekly: A Conversation with Mark Janus
Opinion -Week of July 30, 2018 -
Luxembourg and EU-US Trade Relations
Opinion -It was amusing, yesterday, to see the President of the United States with his counter-part from the EU, a Luxembourgian. -
NASA: Sometimes A Little Government – Saves Us All A Whole Lot Of Government
Opinion -I’m incessantly harangued by pin heads – about everything. -
House Appropriators Reject Trump’s EPA, Interior Budget Cut Requests
Opinion -The House Appropriations Committee’s draft bill to fund the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for fiscal year 2019 provides substantially more funding than President Donald Trump requested. -
States’ Financial Grades Are in, and Illinois Has Failed Yet Again
Opinion -Truth in Accounting’s latest “Financial State of the States” rankings placed Illinois in 49th place—barely beating out New Jersey. The Prairie State was labeled a “Sinkhole State” and earned a “financial grade” of “F.” -
Salisbury, North Carolina Municipal Broadband Lease Approved
Opinion -Ten years after building a taxpayer-funded broadband service, the city of Salisbury, North Carolina is getting out of the internet business. -
House Committee Approves ‘Brighter America’ Spending Reforms
Opinion -A comprehensive resolution setting federal government spending recommendations for Fiscal Year 2019 approved by the U.S. House Budget Committee would reduce the federal deficit by $8.1 trillion over the next 10 years. -
Supreme Court Favors Workers in Forced Union Dues Case
Opinion -In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled governments may not deduct union dues from the paychecks of public sector employees without their consent. -
U.S. Rep. Brady Predicts ‘Tax Reform 2.0’
Opinion -Congress will soon begin work on making permanent the individual income tax reductions included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) says. -
Michigan Repeals Prevailing-Wage Law
Opinion -In a move that will reduce the cost of government construction projects, the state of Michigan is repealing its prevailing-wage law.