Opinion
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IMF, CBO: Deficits, Entitlement Spending Slowing Economic Recovery
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The International Monetary Fund (IMF), an organization promoting global financial cooperation, predicts U.S. economic growth will be sluggish for the rest of 2017 and 2018, a forecast echoed by an official U.S. government forecast. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to July 2017 Jobs Report
Opinion -Press Release -"These new employment numbers show that Trump’s economic program is already working for all Americans, but especially his blue-collar base." - Peter Ferrara -
Big Businesses Lobby Capitol Hill to Keep Interest Expense Deduction
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Businesses United for Interest and Loan Deductibility (BUILD) Coalition, a lobbyist group representing large businesses and trade organizations, sent U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and other Senate Finance Committee members a letter. -
We Are Finally Moving Towards Actually Free Global Trade
Opinion -Editorial -I am a retired musician. I play three instruments – but I sang, is what I mainly did. My first band in high school was big into three-part vocal harmonies. We covered a bunch of songs – and wrote a few – that featured this rousing sound. -
The Destruction of the English Language
Opinion -Editorial -What to make of the hourly abuse of the complex and beautiful English language? -
Donor Disclosure Question Won’t Be on 2018 South Dakota Ballot
Opinion -budget-tax-news -After announcing plans to begin collecting signatures for a ballot measure asking South Dakota voters to approve requiring out-of-state nonprofit organizations to disclose private donors, an out-of-state nonprofit organization is abandoning its plans -
Part II: What Do We Do About Legal Realism and Its Promotion of Judicial Activism?
Opinion -Editorial -In the previous installment in this two-part series, I surveyed how the theory of “legal realism” came to displace the traditional views of law shared by Anglo-American attorneys and judges. -
Arizona Lawmaker Proposes Ending Compulsory School Attendance
Opinion -school-reform-news -An Arizona lawmaker says he plans to introduce legislation to repeal the state’s compulsory school attendance laws. -
Government Scientist Withheld Evidence Popular Herbicide Doesn’t Cause Cancer
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Reuters uncovered evidence a study by a World Health Organization scientist concluding the popular herbicide Roundup is a probable carcinogen is wrong and the researcher knew it. -
‘Fair’ Wealth Surcharges Penalize Hard Work, Success
Opinion -Editorial -Local lawmakers in Seattle, Washington and state lawmakers in Massachusetts are considering or have passed new surcharges on higher-income households in their jurisdictions. -
What’s Keeping the Stock Market Going Up?
Opinion -Editorial -Have you wondered why stocks like Apple, Microsoft and Google continue to make big gains in the U.S. indexes such as the Dow-Jones Industrials? These are the kind of big, successful companies that central banks favor. -
Kansas Legislature Reverses Years of Tax Relief
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Kansans’ wallets are lighter than usual today, with the legislature having raised the state’s income tax rates across the board in July, reversing several years of tax relief led by Gov. Sam Brownback between 2012 and 2017. -
Massachusetts Tax Agency Proposes Online Sales Tax Mandate
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Massachusetts Department of Revenue has issued a proposed regulation requiring online businesses located outside the state to collect and pay sales taxes to the state. The department withdrew a similar policy statement in June. -
House Budget Bill Blocks Funds for Religious Speech Enforcement
Opinion -budget-tax-news -A budget bill under consideration by Congress contains language blocking Internal Revenue Service enforcement of tax laws prohibiting political speech by religious organizations. -
Big Labor Bullies First Amendment with Scientology Playbook
Opinion -Editorial -Unions turn towards the religion of Scientology to help defeat the IRS and scam their members. -
Why Single-Payer Will Only Make Health Care More Expensive
Opinion -Editorial -Why do single-payer health care supporters treat it like an unassailable good? -
Maine Enacts Nation’s First ‘Food Sovereignty’ Law
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Maine has become the first state in the nation to enact a “food sovereignty” law allowing local communities to exempt locally grown and -sold foods from some state regulations. -
Illinois Legislature Overrides Governor’s Budget Veto
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Illinois tax burdens got heavier in July when the state legislature overrode Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of Senate Bill 6 to enact the state’s first full appropriations legislation in more than two years. -
Teacher Evaluations Produce Positive Effects for Students in Nation’s Capital
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #188 -
Taking Broadband to the Country
Opinion -Editorial -Microsoft President Brad Smith announced recently a broad, sustained, cooperative initiative among private industry and federal, state and local governments to extend broadband access ultimately to all Americans where broadband has been most lagging. -
Leftist Ideologues Use Big-Lie Technique to Slam School Choice
Opinion -Editorial -Led by the Center for American Progress (CAP), the political left is attempting to smear the modern school-voucher movement as the offshoot of a racist scheme to keep black children in segregated Southern public schools in the 1960s. -
Elizabeth Warren’s CFPB: This Is Progress?
Opinion -Editorial -For a century now, American law has recognized the freedom of the parties to a contract to agree to submit disputes to arbitration. -
EPA Moves to Scrap WOTUS Rule
Opinion -environment-climate-news -the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Army, and Army Corps of Engineers proposed a rule to rescind the controversial 2015 Waters of the United States rule. -
New Hampshire Reestablishes Legality of Town Tuitioning
Opinion -school-reform-news -New Hampshire towns that don’t offer public education for all grades may once again contract with private, nonsectarian schools for educational services.
