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Heritage Foundation - Economy

Pelosi Wants Probe of Anti-mosque Conservatives

Brian Darling is director of U.S. Senate Relations at The Heritage Foundation.

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Bill Beach on a Tax Holiday and Lending on CNBC

Bill Beach discusses whether a national tax holiday would encourage more lending.

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

How-To Guide for Cleaning Up Obama’s Mess

Mr. Bluey, a contributing editor to Human Events, is director of the Center for Media & Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation.

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

David John on 401(k) Withdrawals on PBS

David John comments on some investors cashing out on their 401(k)s on PBS's Business News Nightly.

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

"Solutions for America" Offered

Consistently, the political Left insists that conservatives have no solutions to offer. It's not true, of course. Still, liberals cling to this mantra.

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

David John on Reforming Fannie and Freddie on Bloomberg News

David John discusses reforming government mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Mike Franc on Heritage's Solutions for America: A Heritage in Focus Special Podcast

Mike Franc discusses the Heritage Solutions for America, a document containing over 100 policy recommendations for how to get America back on track.

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Elaine Chao on Deflation on FNC

Elaine Chao discusses the threat of deflation.

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Elaine Chao on Unemployment on FNC's Special Report

Elaine Chao comments on the Obama administration and unemployment.

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Elaine Chao on Unemployment on FBN

Elaine Chao discusses unemployment.

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Heritage Foundation - Federal Budget & Spending

CBO Budget Baseline Shows that Soaring Spending is Drowning America in Debt

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has updated its 10-year budget baseline, and America’s fiscal outlook continues to worsen

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:44:00 -0400

Mike Franc on Heritage's Solutions for America: A Heritage in Focus Special Podcast

Mike Franc discusses the Heritage Solutions for America, a document containing over 100 policy recommendations for how to get America back on track.

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Stuart Butler on Social Security on CNBC

Stuart Butler discusses Social Security's 75th birthday.

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Tax Cuts Are Still Not Driving the Budget Deficit: The Critics Fall Short

The CBPP's critique is based on faulty economic analysis and fundamental misrepresentations.

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:00:00 -0400

Riding a Tide of Red Ink

It's no secret what the average American family does when income drops: It spends less and saves more. In fact, we've seen just that during these past two recessionary years. The personal saving rate, barely 1 percent of income in the first quarter of 2008, reached 5 percent last year and remains above 3 percent.

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Government Red Tape Is Slowing Gulf’s Recovery

Every day at 9 a.m. the Mary Queen of Vietnam community center opens its doors to distribute 25 food vouchers. Several weeks ago people started lining up at 5 a.m. Now the line forms at 2 a.m.

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Reject More Red Tape

The Obama administration is quickly moving forward with a plan that would impose one-size-fits-all national education standards and tests on states.

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400

J. D. Foster on the National Debt on FBN

J. D. Foster comments on the growth of the national debt.

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400

US National Debt Situation Is One of the World’s Worst

The warning shots fired by the IMF and BIS should be a wake-up call to global leaders to get public debt under control.

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:59:00 -0400

Why the National Debt is a Ticking Time Bomb

Millions of Americans face potential financial ruin because they bought homes they couldn't afford. Often, these homeowners were lured by initially low interest rates that provided the illusion of affordability. After a few years, these "teaser" rates reset upward, creating unaffordably high mortgage payments.

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Heritage Foundation - Taxes

Obama Tax Hikes Defended by Myths and Straw Man Arguments: Summary

Proponents of raising taxes have offered many straw man arguments and myths to support their case.

Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Stop Squeezing Small Business

As we celebrate Labor Day, let’s remember what makes this holiday possible in the first place: American workers. For the most part that means small business.

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Government Strangles High-Tech Growth

The CEO of Intel has joined the ranks of those labeling big government as the cause of our economic slump, not the solution.

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Obama’s Tax Hikes: Simply Unsupportable

President Obama has called for a huge tax increase to take effect on January 1, 2011. Instead of reducing spending, he proposes to raise taxes on a wide swath of taxpayers—including small businesses—despite the weak economic recovery. Congressional Democrats stand poised (immediately following the November elections) to endorse the President’s request and threaten to go much further. Proponents of letting the tax cuts expire—which would indeed be a tax hike—have offered a wide array of justifications for this wrongheaded policy. Heritage Foundation fiscal policy expert J. D. Foster wades through the myths and straw arguments to set the record straight.

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:29:00 -0400

Curtis Dubay on Maintaining the Bush Tax Cuts for the Middle Class on FBN

Curtis Dubay discusses the merits of extending the Bush tax cuts, including cuts for the middle class.

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Bill Beach on a Tax Holiday and Lending on CNBC

Bill Beach discusses whether a national tax holiday would encourage more lending.

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

The Economic Freedom Act: Economic and Fiscal Effects

The Economic Freedom Act, proposed by Representative Jim Jordan, would terminate the ineffective Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), and substitute a proven way to stimulate the economy: tax relief—from permanent repeal of the capital gains and death taxes to significant reductions in payroll taxes and the top corporate tax rate. Analysts at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis (CDA) conducted static and dynamic analyses of the act (H.R. 5029), finding that over the long term, dynamic economic effects would offset much of the cost of the tax relief. In the short term, the act would increase the deficit if it was not coupled with reductions in spending. This means a specific plan for spending cuts is imperative. The CDA analysts detail the economic and fiscal effects of the Economic Freedom Act’s spending and tax cuts.

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:30:00 -0400

Bill Beach on a Flat Tax on CNBC

Bill Beach discusses the possible outcomes of a flat tax.

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

J D Foster on the Value Added Tax (VAT) on CNBC

J D Foster discusses the possibility of an American VAT.

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

The Class-Warfare Gambit

Imagine you are one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top political strategists. The polls show your party needs a game-changer, something that will transform what looks like a losing political hand into a winner. “I know,” you shout, “let’s push for a large tax increase on the ‘fortunate few’ — the 2 or 3 percent of the population with so much money they won’t even miss a few thousand bucks. The other 97 or 98 percent will feel no pain, and we’ll be able to call ourselves deficit hawks when all those billions start rolling in.”

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Heritage Foundation - Health

Less Choice at Greater Cost

With or without Obamacare, health insurance costs are on the rise, and the new law doesn’t do much to stop them from climbing. If anything, several provisions of the legislation passed in March could drive costs higher than they would have been under prior law—unless, of course, insurers can find other ways to bring these costs down.

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Fleecing the Cornhuskers

Remember the Cornhusker Kickback? It was a giveaway to Nebraska brokered in order to secure the vote of one of its senators for Obamacare. After word of the scam broke, pressure mounted on Congress to drop the provision, which it eventually did.

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Consumer Power: Five Lessons from Utah's Health Care Reform

Obamacare is on the march, and state policymakers must decide by 2014 how they will respond to this encroachment on state’s rights to control their own health insurance markets. The state of Utah has been on the reform path since 2005. With its system of defined contributions (as opposed to the standard defined benefits), a functioning health insurance exchange, and appropriate risk-adjustment mechanisms, Utah has given its workers the freedom to choose among many health plans with different levels of benefits, instead of remaining tied to the one-size-fits-all approach dictated by Washington. The Heritage Foundation has discerned five distinct lessons that the other 49 states can learn from Utah’s experience. The time for learning—and for action—is now.

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:17:00 -0400

Go To the Back of the CLASS

In Washington, politicians often give their bills clever names designed more to obscure than to reveal.

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Utah’s Example: How States Can Respond to Obamacare

Since the passage of President Obama’s unpopular Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, many states have pushed back against the federal government’s intrusion into the nation’s health care system. This includes challenging the constitutionality of the law’s insurance mandate and calling for repeal and replacement of the law.

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Mike Franc on Heritage's Solutions for America: A Heritage in Focus Special Podcast

Mike Franc discusses the Heritage Solutions for America, a document containing over 100 policy recommendations for how to get America back on track.

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Taking Control of the Health Care Debate: Avoiding the Mistakes of the 1990s

The reason that America needs health care reform, and the reason that the cost of health care is going up dramatically faster than we can afford and faster than everything else in the economy, is that government has broken the system. The health care system we have today is a product of policy decisions that were made in the 1990s, but it is also true that the debate on those decisions was decisive in 1994 in effecting a political revolution. Today, with enactment of the Obama health care plan, conservatives once again have such an opportunity, but merely replicating the posture of the 1990s is not enough. They have to pursue an aggressive, consequential health care reform proposal that will positively affect the lives of millions of Americans. It is equally important that Members of Congress, who represent the American people, do their will and fix this program and at the same time preserve individual freedom and personal choice.

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:42:00 -0400

Medicare Trustees Issue Report Disavowed by Chief Actuary

Congress and the President must cease their political games and get about the serious business of Medicare reform.

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:09:00 -0400

Brian Blase on the Medicaid Bailout: Heritage in Focus, August 9, 2010

Brian Blase discusses the Medicaid bailout and Obamacare with David Weinberger.

Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Missouri Voters Soundly Reject Obamacare

Missouri voters dealt Obamacare a significant setback yesterday, approving a statewide ballot measure by an overwhelming 71 percent.

Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400