The Heartland Institute

When state and local education budgets need cutting, Americans favor firing administrators, freezing salaries, basing layoffs on performance instead of seniority, increasing the number of students top teachers teach, and replacing pensions with individual retirement plans, according to a new poll. Majorities of U.S. adults in the ...

Carbon taxes have reentered the political discussion amid reports former Congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC) is building support for a carbon tax swap that would eliminate subsidies for all energy companies, tax all fuels based on carbon emitted during combustion, and refund the additional revenue to taxpayers by cutting taxes on savings ...