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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Prevailing wage laws are bleeding taxpayers dry by removing competition between private contractors. Missouri State Rep. Warren Love discusses an effort to help taxpayers get more bang for their bucks.
Regulations impose between $2 and $10 trillion in costs on the economy each year. These regulations offer little benefit, lack transparency, and disregard any semblance of accountability.
Dave Trabert joins the show to discuss what went wrong—and right—with Kansas’ tax policy.
In this episode of the Heartland Daily Podcast, research fellow Jesse Hathaway is joined by Americans for Prosperity-Ohio Director Micah Derry to discuss a new online hotel-tax bill that would make tourism in the Buckeye State more expensive.
In the Live Free or Die State, New Hampshire’s State Rep. Bill Ohm is fighting to reduce occupational licensing abuse and get people back to work.
Current laws allow law enforcement to confiscate and transfer ownership of property from the original owner to the government without any criminal conviction. Wisconsin state Senator David Craig explains how S.B. 61 aims to end this process.
President Donald Trump has done a lot to reform the federal rule-making process, but what reforms can help roll back the “deep state” and reduce the costs of big government?
The American Cancer Society has altered their position on e-cigarettes from condoning them to viewing them as a boon for public health.
Is it just Democrats that want a larger government or is it both parties? Who benefits from a larger government, the people or the bureaucrats?
In this delicious episode of the Heartland Daily Podcast, Consumer Choice Center Senior Fellow Jeff Stier joins the show to talk about a new bill in New York regulating Tide Pods. Bon appetit!
Through a series of studies from the Mercatus Center, Michael Farren and other scholars show farm subsidies are wasteful, unfair and corrupt.
What is the most effective way to fund road construction? How are lobbyists fighting to stay with the status quo despite its inefficiencies? Robert Poole from the Reason Foundation discusses this and more in this episode of Budget & Tax News!
The president of the National Right-To-Work Foundation previews what may be the most important Supreme Court case of 2018: Janus v. AFSCME, a case over whether government employees should be compelled to join labor unions to keep their jobs.
It’s a known fact that government is never as efficient as the private sector. The question is, how far can privatization go? Two experts from the Reason Foundation give their thoughts on the topic.
Sin taxes are generally accepted, but do they outline a form of fiscal discrimination? Sin taxes affect some more than others, something that can hurt those in low income brackets while being negligible to higher earning individuals.
