Budget and Tax News Podcast

Heartland Institute Research Fellow Steve Stanek was recently a guest on the Roger Hedgecock Show to discuss the passage of a nearly $1 trillion dollar farm bill. 

Since raising its flat-rate income tax an astonishing 67 percent in 2011, the State of Illinois has received an extra $20 billion, yet its fiscal situation has worsened. read more

Less Government President Seton Motley describes the new $1 trillion farm bill that could read more

Full-time local government workers outside public safety receive more than $96,000 in pay and benefits in Redondo Beach, Calif., a level of compensation that is typical in cities along much of the read more

Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Institute discusses the Ayn Rand Institute's outreach to high school and college youth, how to make moral arguments for smaller government and individual libe read more

Michigan Gov. read more

State Budget Solutions has released its fourth annual State Debt Study, which shows state governments actually have $5.1 trillion of debt, far more than the states acknowledge. read more

Steve Stanek was recently on Illinois Watchdog Radio with Benjamin Yount. Yount asked Steve to be on the program to talk about the economics of minimum wage. 

After decades of decline, Detroit appears to be on the rise. Lifelong Detroit-area resident Karen DeCoster discusses the reasons many entrepreneurs are deciding Detroit is a good place to be.

 In this "best-of" podcast, Peter Ferrara, senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at The Heartland Institute, discusses his latest policy brief "Social Security Personal Accounts: Pro read more

Heartland's Steve Stanek and Jim Lakely discuss the new bipartisan two-year budget deal that restores “regular order” to the federal budget and spending process — but accomplishes little else.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed a 75-cent a pack cigarette tax hike, which would g read more

 Dan Pilla, a taxpayer’s rights advocate who has defended countless tax payers against the IRS, discusses the national income tax: how he thinks it is immoral and unconstitutional. read more

Mike Stenhouse of the Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity has been working with the state's Democrat-dominated General Assembly to end or sharply reduce the state's sales tax. read more

For three decades the Atlas Network has been planting seeds of economic freedom by supporting liberty-oriented think tanks in the United States and abroad. read more