Opinion
-
Ohio Lawmakers Consider Homeschooler Property Tax Credit
Opinion -Parents of homeschooled children will pay less in property taxes if a novel bill passes in Ohio. -
Illinois Cigarette Tax Increase Becomes a Fiscal Flop
Opinion -Cigarette tax revenue in Illinois is falling far short of the amount projected last year, state officials say.In May of 2012, state legislators approved a $1-per-pack increase on the price of cigarettes, nearly doubling the state’s tax rate to $1. -
Oklahoma Challenge to IRS Enforcement of Obamacare Moves Forward
Opinion -The State of Oklahoma made oral arguments June 20 on the federal government’s motion to dismiss its case Pruitt v Sebelius, which challenges the IRS expansion of the employer mandate into states that choose under President Obama’s law not to implement -
End of QE? Don’t Buy It
Opinion -A new meme is spreading in financial markets: The Fed is about to turn off the monetary spigot. U.S. -
President Obama’s Climate Initiative—The Bad News and Good News
Opinion -In his speech at Georgetown University on Tuesday, President Obama announced, “So today…I’m directing the Environmental Protection Agency to put an end to the limitless dumping of carbon pollution from our power plants and complete new pollution -
Obama’s Words on Carbon Dioxide, Drilling Contradict His Actions
Opinion -In his much-hyped speech Tuesday, President Obama promised executive action – including greater regulations on the coal industry and approval of the Keystone Pipeline only if its “net effect on our climate” is not significant – to reduce the emissions of -
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Introduction of Wireless Tax Fairness Act in U.S. Senate
Opinion -Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) this week introduced the Wireless Tax Fairness Act (S. 1235), a bill that would impose a moratorium on state and local taxes on cell phones and other wireless services. The house version of the legislation (H. -
Minnesota Implements Solar Power Mandate
Opinion -Minnesota residents will have to purchase 1.5 percent of their electricity from expensive solar power under legislation signed by Gov. Mark Dayton. -
Records Show Warrantless Collection of Personal Financial Data
Opinion -Judicial Watch announced in late June it has obtained records from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) revealing the agency has spent millions of dollars for the warrantless collection and analysis of Americans’ financial transactions. -
Heartland Institute Statement on Chinese Edition of ‘Climate Change Reconsidered’
Opinion -(June 27, 2013) -- A division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has translated and published a Chinese edition of Climate Change Reconsidered, one of The Heartland Institute’s many publications on the topic of global warming. -
Wisconsin Legislative Committee Affirms Walker Medicaid Decision
Opinion -Republican lawmakers in control of the state’s purse strings rejected federal dollars to expand Medicaid coverage in Wisconsin, backing up Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s decision not to accept the expansion. -
Wisconsin to Expand Voucher Program
Opinion -Wisconsin’s legislature has expanded school vouchers statewide in a budget measure that passed the Senate by one vote. -
Going Where No Law Firm Has Gone Before …
Opinion -As pornographers entice viewers with alluring images online, then sue downloaders for infringing on their copyrights, a federal judge in Los Angeles has taken a stand. Like former U.S. -
Obama’s Climate Plan: A Costly Solution Looking for a Problem
Opinion -President Barack Obama yesterday announced a new effort to impose harsh restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions. President Obama claimed the restrictions are necessary to address global warming. -
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. -
Obama, not ‘Skeptics,’ Serve as President of the ‘Flat-Earth Society’
Opinion -I’m loath to even write about President Obama’s banal speech yesterday on his climate change/energy agenda — to be executed via fiat, of course, and not through a Constitutional legislative process he finds so frustrating. -
Cooling Looms As Earth’s True Climate Calamity
Opinion -Although we have been enmeshed in a long debate over global warming and climate change, this controversy has been politically motivated, not a response to actual global warming, as there has been no warming for 16 years. -
Modeling Climate Feedbacks Based on Short-Term Climate Variations
Opinion -What does the process reveal about the current status of the climate-modeling enterprise? That in the case of cloud feedback, it is difficult to come to “any firm conclusion” ... even on the sign of the feedback... -
Improvement, But More Needed, Among Mortgage Servicers, Monitor Says
Opinion -The nation’s largest mortgage servicers have improved their performance but most are failing to comply with parts of a national settlement that was designed to improve how they treat financially stressed borrowers, according to an independent monitor. -
IRS’s Auditor Slams the Agency for Credit Card Practices
Opinion -Dogged by accusations of partisanship and lavish spending, the Internal Revenue Service is under fire again for questionable credit card expenses, including $140 per-guest dinners. -
Obama’s Climate Obsession
Opinion -The bond market suffered a mini-crash following President Obama’s ill-considered words all but firing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke during a television interview with Charlie Rose.Unemployment has been stuck over 7. -
Reconfirming the Constitution
Opinion -The June 25, 2013 Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder did not gut the Voting Rights Act. It merely ratified the idea that it is not eternally 1965 in America. -
Climate Alarmism’s 10,000 Commandments
Opinion -The United States will “do more,” before it’s “too late” to prevent “dangerous” global warming, President Obama told Berliners last week. -
What Consists of Well-Being? The Non-Study Study
Opinion -The Social Science Research Center has posted a lengthy report on what consists of good human development & well-being (read happiness) in the states.
