Opinion
-
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute, National Tax Limitation Committee Offer Roadmap for Social Security and Medicare Solvency
Opinion -Editorial -"With the freedom to choose personal savings, investment, and insurance accounts for Social Security, a proven reform in the real world, this paper shows that middle-income Americans would be empowered to retire as millionaires" - Peter Ferrara -
At College of the Ozarks, Students Work Off Tuition Debt
Opinion -school-reform-news -One Midwestern college is fighting off the specter of lifelong debt for its students by providing them the opportunity to work in return for tuition. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute, National Tax Limitation Committee Urge Trump, Lawmakers to Expand Education Choice
Opinion -Press Release -Latest Paper – Documenting How Education Choice Boosts Student Achievement and Economic Growth – is Part Seven of a Multi-part ‘Roadmap for the 21st Century’ Series. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute, National Tax Limitation Committee Offer Roadmap for Monetary Policy, Energy Deregulation
Opinion -Press Release -"The new Trump administration has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to turn the nation away from economic stagnation, racial and class division, and socialism and toward economic prosperity, harmony, and freedom." - Joseph Bast -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute, National Tax Limitation Committee Release ‘Roadmap for the 21st Century’
Opinion -Press Release -First Three of Multi-part Series Outlines Policies to Reform Health Care, Entitlements, and Federal Tax Code -
Western Governors University Praised for Reducing Student Debt
Opinion -school-reform-news -Western Governors University (WGU), an online, nonprofit university, is receiving praise for its Responsible Borrowing Initiative (RBI), a program to reduce student loan debt. -
Western Governors University Praised for Reducing Student Debt
Opinion -school-reform-news -Western Governors University (WGU), an online, nonprofit university, is receiving praise for its Responsible Borrowing Initiative (RBI), a program to reduce student loan debt. -
Can America’s Debt Growth Be Stopped?
Opinion -Poulson believes that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump lack credibility when it comes to facing this nation's federal debt crisis. -
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Utah’s Move to Impose Congressional Term Limits
Opinion -Press Release -State Would Invoke an Article V Convention of the States to Rein in CongressThe Utah House of Representatives on Monday evening approved a resolution calling for an Article V convention for the purpose of imposing term limits on members of Congress. -
America’s National Debt Bomb Caused by the Welfare State
Opinion -The news is filled with the everyday zigzags of those competing against each other for the Democrat and Republican Party nominations to run for the presidency of the United States. -
Congress is Worthless for Limiting Spending
Opinion -It is hard for people to grasp the magnitude of the U.S. debt problem—and what the ultimate “day of reckoning” will be. The national debt reached $1 trillion for the first time in 2009. It is now well over $18 trillion. -
Why Government Deficits and Debt Do Matter
Opinion -The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported in early May that for the month of April 2015 the Federal government ran a budget surplus, taking in more in taxes than it laid out in expenditures. -
134 Billion Reasons to Embrace Debt Reform
Opinion -Every Pennsylvanian’s share of state and local debt increased by 20 percent over the last twelve years. In 2002, per capita debt totaled $8,693. Today, the total is a shade under $10,450. This trend must be reversed. -
How the States Can Make the Debt Ceiling Debate Real
Opinion -For the past year or so, there has been no statutory limit on how much the federal government borrows. The debt ceiling was abandoned in the last budget deal. -
America, Our Debt-Ridden Nation
Opinion -Let’s look at just some of the latest news about the U.S. -
The Lower Cost of a Truly Limited Government
Opinion -A demonstration of just how far the United States has moved from its original founding principles is seen in the fact that in all the jousting over ObamaCare, the general rise in “entitlement” spending, and the burden of government regulation over -
Grassley Seeks Answers: Why Pursue Children for Deceased Parents’ Debts?
Opinion -The Washington Post declared victory this week for exposing the seizure of income-tax refunds to claw back alleged Social Security overpayments. -
House Punts on Debt Ceiling, Cedes Power of the Purse
Opinion -The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to suspend the federal government’s debt ceiling after House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and other Republican leaders dropped demands for spending concessions in exchange for more borrowing. -
Shutdown Hysterics And Debt Drama Queens: What Happens Next?
Opinion -After all the dire predictions of doom and gloom, all the hysterics and drama queens, the end result of the great government shutdown/debt limit battle was no real substantive change, except for one, big, fat, new, debt loophole for the power mad -
The New Vicious Cycle of Student Loan Debt
Opinion -Generally, the idea of going to college is not to just get a job but to begin a career. -
The New Red Menace: Government Debt
Opinion -With the Obama White House and Congress having agreed in October to allow the Treasury Department to borrow money beyond the previous $16. -
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy; Debt Could Total $20 Billion
Opinion -Kevyn Orr helped turn around Detroit-based automaker Chrysler LLC but apparently needs help turning around Detroit itself. The City of Detroit has filed for bankruptcy. -
Student Debt Puts Millions Into Ranks of Lost Generation
Opinion -A recent New York Federal Reserve study has found that 11.2 percent of 39 million borrowers with student loans are 90 days-plus delinquent on making payments on the nation’s $986 billion of student loan debt. A pretty depressing statistic. -
Report Raises Questions Over Student Debt Harming Housing, Auto Markets
Opinion -Are excessive student loans preventing young Americans from borrowing money to buy a home or new car? That is certainly one of the conclusions of a recent New York Federal Reserve study, “Young Student Loan Borrowers Retreat from Housing and Auto Markets.