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Stimulus Funds Go to Phantom Districts and Fictitious Jobs

Matthew Glans

Budget & Tax News / The Heartland Institute / November 18, 2009

As news reporters and private citizens peruse records that supposedly track the federal government’s economic stimulus spending, they are finding ... (read more)

Recycling Tipping Fee Increase and Transfer from the Recycling Fund to the General Fund (DNR – Air, Waste, and Contaminated Land)

Bill Agency

Paper #601 / Legislative Fiscal Bureau Joint Committee on Finance / May 10, 2007

The Legislature enacted 1989 Act 335 as a statewide regulatory and financial assistance program aimed at encouraging, and in some instances requiring, solid ... (read more)

State Solid Waste Tipping Fees Overview (DNR – Air, Waste, and Contaminated Land)

prepared by: Kendra Bonderud

Paper #590 / Legislative Fiscal Bureau Joint Committee on Finance / May 19, 2009

Solid and hazardous waste disposal facilities (landfills) pay state tipping fees for each ton of solid waste disposed of in the landfill. The main state ... (read more)

Tea Parties Reflect Grassroots Uprising

Steve Stanek

The Heartland Institute

Angry that the federal, state, and local governments are imposing ever-higher taxes and fees on income, retail sales, tobacco, beer and wine, gasoline, ... (read more)

Massachusetts Official Calls for Federal Broadband Stimulus

Thomas Cheplick

InfoTech & Telecom News / The Heartland Institute / March 01, 2009

In one of his final acts before leaving office at the end of January, Massachusetts’s former Secretary of Housing and Economic Development, Daniel ... (read more)

Movies Can't Fix Bad Government

John Nothdurft

The Wall Street Journal / The Heartland Institute / February 09, 2009

That states should be engaging in corporate welfare in these tough economic times by handing out film tax credits is dismaying ("Mich ... (read more)

Some Governors Are Offering Big Ideas for Reform

Patrick Gleason

Budget & Tax News / The Heartland Institute / March 01, 2009

More than 40 state budgets are in deficit or projected to be there in the coming fiscal year, and in some states the dire budget situations are creating ... (read more)

Offshored Money Could Spur Recovery

John Nothdurft

Letter to the Editor / The Washington Post / January 08, 2009

Three weeks ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was saying that the economy needed a stimulus package of $600 billion. Less than two weeks later, President-elect ... (read more)

Carbon Audit Threatens to Cause More Economic Pain

James M. Taylor

Budget & Tax News / The Heartland Institute / December 01, 2008

An ominous carbon audit of the U.S. tax code has been initiated, along with several expensive “green pork” programs, as part of the bailout ... (read more)

Flyers’ Ehrenreich Gets Rich, Taxpayers Get Soaked

Brian Costin

Daily Herald October 27, 2008

Since 1999, Schaumburg taxpayers have been forced to give nearly $20 million to build a stadium and assist the operation of the Schaumburg Flyers Professional ... (read more)