The Heartland Institute

... GAO claims there are nine federal agencies, including U.S. Department of Agriculture... of Transportation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, plus three tax activities, that have... more than 98%." EPA and other agencies now want to pursue 20 million... of duplication. Apparently one state... ...

... Urge Congress to Oppose Carbon Taxes Environment & Climate Dear United States Senators and... to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and protect the world’s climate. The revenue... gas emissions.) Higher carbon taxes cause environmental harm. Carbon taxes force the substitution... energy sources cause real and... ...

The December 2009 issue of Budget & Tax News offers a photo feature on the September 12 Taxpayer March on DC. Nearly one million people rallied on behalf of fiscal responsibility and free markets. Also in this issue: * State efforts to impose their tax regimes on out-of-state online retailers aren t sitting well with those ...

The Fiscal Survey of States is published twice annually by the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) and the National Governors Association (NGA). The survey presents aggregate and individual data on the states’ general fund receipts, expenditures, and balances. Although not the totality of state spending, these ...

In recent years, members of Congress have inserted thousands of pork-barrel spending projects into bills to reward interests in their home states. But such parochial pork is only a small part of a broader problem of rising federal spending on traditionally state and local activities. Federal spending on aid to the states ...

... corporate welfare state transcends any specific agency—and therefore any specific congressional committee—one way to reform or terminate those programs would be through a corporate welfare reform commission (CWRC). That commission could function like the successful military base closure commission. The CWRC would compose... ...

... of Congress were discreetly contacting federal agencies to urge that their pet projects... memorandum to heads of departments and agencies directing them not to honor such informal requests.... ...

We have all grown weary of the string of ethical indiscretions in the salons of Washington D.C. and legislative offices in Madison. Now we are finding that the ethos that spawned this questionable behavior has also led government to use questionable bookkeeping to cover its lavish, election-oriented spending. This report ...

Fiscal Focus is one of the ways the Comptroller’s Office strives to assist taxpayers and the people of Illinois. This report is designed to provide fiscal information of general interest. ...

Many Americans are disappointed by the huge amounts of money Congress spends, but that's not the real problem. The real problem is the profoundly irrational system Congress uses to decide how much to spend. The basic requirement for intelligent decisionmaking is to hear arguments and evidence from both sides of an issue ...

Many Americans are disappointed by the huge amounts of money Congress spends, but that’s not the real problem. The real problem is the profoundly irrational system Congress uses to decide how much to spend. The basic requirement for intelligent decision- making is to hear arguments and evidence from both sides of ...

... Sound fiscal principles promote economic growth, protect citizens from uncertainty and excessive taxation... all else: Keep taxes low to Protect state employees from politics. The booklet also contains an extensive bibliography for further research, including many links to documents available on the Web, and a directory... ...

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... four years. The only Cabinet-level agencies that have smaller proposed budgets for... of Labor and Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency. All the rest have grown dramatically. The new Bush budget proposes, for example, that the Department of Education budget will be 40 percent bigger... ...