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Heartland Institute Experts React to Budget Deal in Congress
Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray Tuesday evening announced a budget deal they say restores “regular order” to the federal budget and spending process. Overall spending in fiscal year 2014 would be...
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A Bad Budget Deal Compared to What?
I’m in a tough spot. Paul Ryan is one of the brightest stars in the Republican Party. He is a true fiscal (and social) conservative, and I cheered when Mitt Romney selected him as his running mate...
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Republicans Go to ‘War’ Over Cutting 1/1,825th of Federal Spending
Let’s put this Paul Ryan-Patty Murray federal budget deal in perspective. It’s a deal that some pundits say has sparked “war” between the Republican grassroots and Republican establishment leaders. The...
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Heartland Daily Podcast: Steve Stanek- Federal Budget Deal is Meaningless
Steve Stanek says the most recent federal budget deal is meaningless! It's a scam, a sham, a fraud! Congress hasn't had an actual budget since 2009, and they barely have one now.(Read...
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Entitlement Reform, Tea Party Style
The Tea Party/Republican House majority was elected in 2010 to stop the runaway Obama Progressive Democrat big government spending spree. And it has had a decisive effect in that regard, as recorded in...
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Two and a Half Cheers for Ryan-Murray
My life’s work is devoted to cutting the federal government in half. In fact, I have published detailed plans regarding how to do that (it’s called entitlement reform), in far too many places already...
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Obama vs. the Constitution
“If you like your health plan, you can keep it,” is the Lie of the Year, according to PolitiFact. But Barack Obama has been operating under an even more momentous lie for his entire presidency, from...
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Michelle Malkin endorses Article V convention
A popular conservative blogger endorsed a state-led movement to fix the growing budget crisis in the United States. Michelle Malkin endorsed the use of the Article V convention process during a recent...
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‘Skinny Budget’ Outline Is the Right Stuff
Taxation, along with its mirror images of spending and appropriations, produces consequences that affect everyday people. Reducing spending and tax burdens is a moral, compassionate move for lawmakers...
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Trump’s Budget Proposal Shows The Way To Greatness
Government spending and its evil twin, taxation, harm people every day, sometimes mocking taxpayers by claiming to help them, even as they inflict serious economic damage. Reducing spending and taxes,...
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Fed Gov’t Won’t Restrain Spending
In February President Trump proposed a $4.4 trillion budget for 2018 and projects a budget deficit for 2019 almost double his estimate last year. Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and...
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Heartland’s Ben Domenech on MSNBC’s ‘The Last Word’ Talking Sequester
We watch MSNBC (sometimes) so you don’t have to! Our Benjamin Domenech was on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” giving viewers the non-leftist view on the sequester debate. Guest host...
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Heartland’s Ross Kaminsky on Kudlow: Wall Street Cheers Sequester
Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Ross Kaminsky was a guest last night on the always smart and informative Kudlow Report on CNBC. Kudlow asked him on the program to talk about his latest piece in the...
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The Coming Sequester Lies
Almost a week since the dreaded sequester went into effect, and look out your window. To quote President Obama the day after Obamacare was passed, the sun is still shining, the birds are still...
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Paul Ryan’s House Republican Budget vs. Patty Murray’s Senate Democrat Budget
The competing budgets released last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) definitively define the growing differences...
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One Day in the Life of Federal Government
I’m scanning headlines on the Internet. I see President Obama has announced he’ll agree to cut Social Security and other benefit programs in exchange for higher taxes. I think, “Take more, give less....
View ArticleWhy I Hate Chained CPI, and You Should Too
[Editor’s note: Listen to Steve talk The Take with Charles Butler about chained CPI and other aspects of President Obama’s 2014 budget with the player above.] President Obama today unveiled his...
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The Economy? It Must be the GOP’s Fault, Right?
Oh goody, the president is on a tour of speeches to address the economic stagnation for which he is to blame. Just what we all need — another speech. He is going to blame Republicans for the failure of...
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Entitlement Reform, Tea Party Style
The Tea Party/Republican House majority was elected in 2010 to stop the runaway Obama Progressive Democrat big government spending spree. And it has had a decisive effect in that regard, as recorded in...
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Heartland Institute Experts React to Budget Deal in Congress
Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray Tuesday evening announced a budget deal they say restores “regular order” to the federal budget and spending process. Overall spending in fiscal year 2014 would be...
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