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Budget and Tax News Podcast

Summary: The Heartland Institute podcast featuring libertarian and conservative scholars who advocate for lower taxes, less spending, less regulation, more economic freedom, and vibrant free markets.

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 Nicole Kaeding: Grading America's Governors | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 12:12

Cato Institute budget and policy analyst Nicole Kaeding joins Budget and Tax News managing editor, Jesse Hathaway, to discuss the Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors, a white paper exa read more

 Erin Shannon: Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage Already Causing Economic Harm | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 20:07

The Seattle City Council recently voted to force all employers to pay all employees at least $15 an hour. read more

 Sheldon Richman: 100 Years of the Federal Income Tax | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:14

The federal income tax has just turned 100 years old. read more

 Lyman Stone: Taxes Do Have Impact on Interstate Moves | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:55

Michael Mazerov of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities recently published a big report in which he essentially argues taxes have almost no impact on where people decide to live. read more

 Sarah Curry: Dangerous Precedent In Occupancy Tax Request | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 15:41

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 Wayne Crews: Ten Thousand Commandments, $1.8 Trillion Cost | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 15:58

Federal re read more

 Jonathan Williams: Rich States, Poor States | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:36

The "laboratories of democracy" that are these United States show some experim read more

 Gary MacDougal: The Wrong Way to Help the Poor | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:09

Gary E. MacDougal, a former business consultant and executive, advised Gov. read more

 Richard McKenzie: Minimum Wage Proponents -- and Opponents -- Both Have It Wrong | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 13:07

Proponents and opponents of higher minimum wages usually argue over the possible impact on the number of jobs. Both sides are focusing on the wrong issue. read more

 Pamela Villarreal: Little Fairness in Marketplace Fairness Act | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 16:40

Pamela Villarreal: Little Fairness in Marketplace Fairness Act The federal Mar read more

 Kevin Kane: Smart on Crime | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:33

The United States has by far the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, and the state with the highest rate of all is Louisiana, where the prison population has doubled in 20 read more

 John Whitehead: Bigger Police Budgets, More Police Aggression | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:04

In this 'best of' podcast, Constitutional lawyer and author John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute discusses the growth in the aggressiveness of police forces, which seems to be increasing alon read more

 Dan Alban: Federal Court Slaps Down IRS . . . and Big Tax Preparers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 14:34

In another example of big business aligning itself with big government, the nation's largest tax preparer firms and tax software companies worked with the Internal Revenue Service to impose a read more

 Kyle Pomerlau: US Hurt By Having Some of the Industrialized World's Highest Taxes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:49

The Tax Foundation has recently released separate reports showing the United States has the sixth-highest effective capital gains tax and the highest effective corporate tax in the Organizati read more

 Robert Romano: House Republicans Hold Majority, but Democrats Hold Power | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:47

The Republican House leadership decided to allow a vote on suspending the debt ceiling until 2015, and the measure barely squeaked through with only 28 votes from House Republicans and overwhelming read more

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