Opinion
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Economic Ideas: Inflation, Price Controls and Collectivism During the French Revolution
Opinion -Editorial -Governments have an insatiable appetite for the wealth of their subjects. When governments find it impossible to continue raising taxes or borrowing funds, they have invariably turned to printing paper money to finance their growing expenditures. -
Time for Trump to Execute Promised Obamacare Repeal
Opinion -consumer-power-report, Editorial -Consumer Power Report #525 -
Couple Challenges Arizona’s Civil-Asset Forfeiture Laws
Opinion -budget-tax-news -A Washington State couple is suing a county government in Arizona for initially refusing to return their property because of alleged paperwork errors. -
Oklahoma Supreme Court Okays Pension Reform Law
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling deciding a law giving thousands of new state government employees defined-contribution (DC) instead of defined-benefit pension (DB) plans was appropriately passed by lawmakers. -
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to the 2016 Election
Opinion -Press Release -In the November 8 election, Donald Trump won the presidency and Republicans retained control of the House and Senate. In state races, Republicans expanded their majorities in state legislatures and gubernatorial mansions. -
Baltimore Lawmakers Reject Proposed Airbnb Tax
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Baltimore, Maryland City Council rejected a proposed tax on consumers using Airbnb, a peer-to-peer economy business, and other “homesharing” companies. -
California City Lawmakers Consider New ‘Netflix Taxes’
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Lawmakers in numerous California cities are considering extending taxes on cable television service to include online streaming video services, such as Netflix. -
Climate Change Debate Gets a New Heroine
Opinion -Editorial -Following in the footsteps of the late Michael Crichton (State of Fear), Fernandez has woven a hair-raising murder mystery into an accurate explanation of what we really know about the planet’s present and future climate. -
Education and the Election: What Voters Will Decide
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #157 -
Right-to-Work on the Agenda for Kentucky Gov. Bevin
Opinion -budget-tax-news -At a speech in Bowling Green, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) announced plans to work with lawmakers to pass right-to-work legislation during the 2017 legislative session, after neighboring West Virginia enacted a right-to-work law in 2016. -
Federal Judges Dismiss Chicago Taxicab Owners’ Lawsuit
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Federal judges rejected an appeal filed by Chicago taxicab companies claiming the city government was violating the companies’ constitutional rights by not applying taxicab regulations to peer-to-peer economy transportation network companies (TNCs). -
Nevada Gov. Sandoval Signs Vegas Sports Subsidy Tax Hike
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Nevada lawmakers approved a tax hike passed to finance taxpayer subsidies for a proposed football stadium in Las Vegas. -
Book Defends Sound Science Against Politicization
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In Standing with Giants, 14 scientists pay tribute to Elizabeth Whelan by providing sound science on topics including energy, climate change, air pollution and biotechnology. -
Trump’s Tax Reform Promises A Boom. Hillary’s Trillion-Dollar Hike Guarantees Recession
Opinion -Editorial -Few people understand that Trump’s tax reform plan builds on the House Republican Task Force appointed by House Speaker Paul Ryan earlier this year, and chaired by chief House tax writer Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX). -
Environmental Prosecutions Decline Under President Obama
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The number of criminal prosecutions pursued by the Environmental Protection Agency have fallen by half during the last five years under the Obama administration. -
Ebb and Flow Continues in State Climate Lawsuits
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #230 -
America Needs to Use More Energy, Not Less
Opinion -Editorial -During the 2016 election, both candidates promised to bring manufacturing back - Donald Trump made the recovery of jobs lost to China and Mexico a cornerstone of his campaign. -
Size of Government Is the Real Cause of Nation’s Political Uproar
Opinion -Editorial -It would be a miracle if people were not arguing intently over this election, because the nation’s government has grown so big that there is more at stake than ever before. -
The Government Should Play No Role in Educating Our Children
Opinion -Editorial -As the presidential election looms, The Economist considers whether the next president will use “the regulatory power of the federal government to spur reform” in education policy and if he or she does how that will be accomplished. -
Roundup the Corrupt Fear Mongers
Opinion -Deceit and collusion drive campaigns to ban a vital, popular, safe, affordable herbicide. -
Heartland’s Horace Cooper on The O’Reilly Factor!
Opinion -heartland-weekly, News -If you don’t visit Freedom Pub and the Heartlander digital magazine every day, you’re missing out on some of the best news and commentary on liberty and free markets you can find. But worry not, freedom lovers! The Heartland Weekly Email is here! -
Those Who Can – Do. Those Who Can’t – Regulate Those Who Can
Opinion -Editorial -It’s how this country became the economic light of the world. Talented people – free to do amazing things. They become fabulously wealthy – and make all our lives better and richer. -
Survey: Many Americans Still Skeptical Scientists Understand Climate Change
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A Pew Research Center survey indicates a majority of Americans do not believe scientists understand the causes or consequences of climate change well. -
Governors’ policies set stage for states’ economic success (or failure)
Opinion -Editorial -Although many people are focused on the presidential race, candidates running for other important offices, such as for governor, often have a larger impact on the day-to-day lives of most people.