Mayor Bloomberg Imposes a Victim Tax on New Yorkers
Starting next summer, New Yorkers will get hit with a tax that is hard to believe even in the already overly-taxed metropolis of Manhattan. Firefighters… Read More
Starting next summer, New Yorkers will get hit with a tax that is hard to believe even in the already overly-taxed metropolis of Manhattan. Firefighters… Read More
A developing problem with this secret compromise among leaders in the House, Senate and White House with regard to extending tax cuts for all is… Read More
Last night, President Barack Obama emerged from negotiations with Congressional Republicans and told the American people: “For the past few weeks there’s been a lot… Read More
Maybe it’s the holiday season, but if the reports are true President Obama and congressional Republicans have reached a compromise on extending the
Like a falling barometer indicates impending bad weather, the actions of businesses are an early warning sign when Congress is about to harm the economy…. Read More
Last Friday the Labor Department reported that private sector employers added an anemic 50,000 net jobs to the U.S. economy in November. That is far… Read More
“You are what your record says you are.” So says Bill Parcells, three-time Super Bowl–winning coach. Professional sports, athletes, coaches, and commentators can spin the… Read More
President Barack Obama’s 18 member National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (commission) just voted 11-7 in support of the commission’s official report. This is… Read More
Today the Labor Department released its monthly jobs report, which showed that the U.S. economy added an anemic 39,000 jobs this month and that the… Read More
Join us on Today from 12-1 ET for our “Lunch With Heritage” Online Chat. We will be joined by senior policy analyst Curtis Dubay and… Read More
The House of Representatives is set to open the next act in the grand political theater, a fiscal tragedy of epic proportions surrounding the prevention… Read More
For two election cycles in row, a frustrated American people voted to throw out the incumbent party because they did not like how Washington was… Read More
In light of the impending Obama Tax Hikes, Mercatus Center senior research fellow Veronique de Rugy created the chart to the right illustrating Hauser’s Law… Read More
Government employees owe $3.3 billion in back taxes, CNBC reports. According to Heritage Foundation fellow James Sherk, the typical federal worker “receives 22 percent more… Read More
One of the most pressing pieces of legislation that the lame duck Congress must deal with is the impending expiration of the 2001 and 2003… Read More
Upside surprise: Employers add 151,000 jobs in October , the USA Today reported about the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday. And it is true: the… Read More
The political math was simple and should have been fool-proof: Proponents of a high-earner income tax in the state of Washington needed only a majority… Read More
EducationNews
Tuesday’s election results aren’t the only outcomes this week likely to impact the future of school choice across the country. Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard… Read More
The Washington Post reports today that the Obama administration is entering “the politically sensitive debate” on sex education by spending $110 million on 115 programs… Read More
By now, Americans have become well acquainted with the fact that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will have a multitude of adverse… Read More
While the United States struggles to escape a recession — and California is plagued with a massive fiscal crisis — there is one outlier posting… Read More
The obvious reason to prevent a tax hike by extending current tax rates is that doing so will prevent further economic harm to an already… Read More
Borscht Belt is a colloquial name for the Catskills Mountains in New York where famous comedians of the 1940s to 1960s would work their trade…. Read More
There he goes again. President Obama is proposing yet another huge tax hike. Maybe we should cut to the chase and just ask our Taxhiker… Read More
If economic sages were judged the same way major league baseball hitters are, Alan Greenspan hitting .333 would deserve the attention he garners. In recent… Read More
There are many reasons to be against the Obama tax hikes, especially as the economy struggles to recover. However, even putting aside economic growth considerations,… Read More
Raising taxes on successful businesses is one thing we cannot afford to do. Large, successful businesses that create jobs would be hit the hardest, but… Read More
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf recently testified before the Senate Budget Committee on policies that might give the economy a helpful lift in… Read More
At 20 minutes after midnight this morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) gaveled the House out of session, assuring that Congress will now adjourn until after… Read More
The inability of Congress to stop the Obama tax hikes is already having a real, negative impact on the U.S. economy. Businesses are delaying hiring… Read More
