Opinion
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Taxpayers Flee Illinois, State Loses $26 Billion of Taxable Income
Opinion -“One taxpayer moved out of Illinois every 10 minutes between 1995 and 2009,” according to the Illinois Policy Institute, and it appears taxes and tax policies are to blame for many of the losses. -
Health Insurance Companies: An Endangered Species?
Opinion -By 2020, “the American health insurance industry will be extinct,” writes Ezekiel Emanuel, on the New York Times opinion blog. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Obama’s 2013 Budget
Opinion -President Barack Obama on Monday released his 2013 budget, which includes $3.8 trillion in spending over 10 years. In Obama’s budget, the annual federal deficit falls below $600 billion just once, in 2018. The president’s budget achieves $1. -
Bailouts: Government’s Project to Finance Failure
Opinion -During the recent financial crisis no issue aroused more passion than financial institution bailouts. -
Wyoming’s Best, New Jersey’s Worst for Business Tax Climate: Report
Opinion -Wyoming, South Dakota, and Florida have the best business tax climates in the nation, and New Jersey, New York, and California have the worst, according to the Tax Foundation’s “2012 State Business Tax Climate Index. -
Heartland Science Director Jay Lehr to Testify Before Kansas Legislature Today About Water, Wind Power
Opinion -FEBRUARY 14 – Dr. Jay Lehr, science director at The Heartland Institute, who earned the nation’s first Ph.D. in groundwater hydrology, will address a joint committee meeting of the House Agriculture and Energy & Public Utilities committees at 9 a.m. -
That Party Was a Blast
Opinion -A fraternity and a frat member at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia are being sued for negligence after a party where alcohol was served. -
A False Compromise on Conscience Protections
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #315Last week, in the wake of incredible backlash from faith communities and employers across the country, President Barack Obama proposed a modified version of his conscience overrun: Instead of requiring employers to violate their -
Facebook Rips Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank in IPO Filing
Opinion -In his letter to prospective shareholders in the middle of the 201-page “Form S-1” Facebook filed Feb. -
Heartland Institute Expert: President Obama’s Reinsurance Tax Would Hurt U.S. Policyholders
Opinion -WASHINGTON – A proposal in President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Proposal would assess billions of dollars in new taxes on offshore insurers and reinsurers, making it more difficult for U.S. -
Indiana Bucks Rust Belt, Enacts Right-to-Work Law
Opinion -A battle in Indiana that lasted more than a year and two legislative sessions ended Feb. 1 when Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) signed a right-to-work bill into law, making Indiana the 23rd right-work state—and the first in the Rust Belt. -
Calm Year for Texas Windstorm Agency, but Lawsuits Loom
Opinion -With a sigh of relief, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Agency closed out 2011 absent a major hurricane or other severe weather event. -
Crop Insurers Post Record $9.1B Losses in 2011
Opinion -Indemnity payments on U.S. multi-peril crop insurance policies set a new record of $9.1 billion in 2011, and could pass $10 billion when all is said and done, according to new data from the trade group National Crop Insurance Services. -
Lending Is Back to Pre-Crisis Levels, Fed Data Show
Opinion -Fast Facts from the Financial Services Roundtable FACT: Lending has returned to pre-crisis levels of nearly $7 trillion, according to data from the Federal Reserve. U.S. commercial banks had extended $6. -
Another Swipe Fee Battle Unfolding
Opinion -Another major dispute over interchange fees could take place soon, this one centering on the swipe fee retailers pay on credit card transactions. -
Michigan Gas Stations Introduce Drivers’ License Swipes for Cash Purchases
Opinion -A Saginaw, Michigan business owner says requiring customers to swipe their drivers’ license when topping off their tanks could stop drive-offs—clients leaving gas stations without paying. -
IRS Regulation Could Threaten Charter School Teachers’ Pensions
Opinion -The Internal Revenue Service has extended the comment period on a pension rule change that could force states to remove nearly 100,000 charter school teachers from state pensions and withdraw benefits some had already accrued. -
First Wolf Sighted in California Since 1924
Opinion -A gray wolf crossed south of the Oregon-California border this winter, marking the first time a wolf has been sighted in the Golden State since 1924. -
Wolf Management Returned to Great Lakes States
Opinion -Wolf populations are growing in the northwestern Great Lakes region, with the federal government removing the predator from regional endangered species protections as of Jan. 27. The decision returns management of the species to the state level. -
Why Obamacare is Unconstitutional, and What Conservatives Should Do About It
Opinion -Remarks by Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. -
Attorneys General Demand Reconsideration of HHS Abortion and Contraception Mandate
Opinion -Three state attorneys general have written HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, urging them to reconsider the controversial new mandate requiring the funding of contraception and -
Federal Court Blocks California Carbon Emissions Rule
Opinion -A federal district court has put a temporary stop to a California Air Resources Board (CARB) rule restricting carbon dioxide emissions from transportation fuels. According to the court, the rule violates the U.S. -
Satellite Data Show Slower Melting of Glaciers
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #38New satellite data show glacial ice is melting more slowly than previously thought. -
Heartland Institute Expert Available to Speak About New Nuclear Plant Approvals
Opinion -FEBRUARY 9 -- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission today approved licenses to build two new nuclear reactors. The plants, which will be in Georgia, are the first to gain government authorization since before the Three Mile Island incident in 1979.
