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Policy Studies: Budget Donald Rumsfeld - August 01, 1995
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1. Five Steps to a Smaller, More Effective Federal Government
Define the "Core" Business. ... (read more)
Micheal A. Finch, Joseph L. Bast, and Patrick T. Foys - September 30, 1994
In January 1995, Illinois' Bureau of the Budget is expected to announce that revenues for the current fiscal year will fall approximeately 3 percent short ... (read more)
William B. Irvine - March 31, 1988
The popularity of the video cassette recoder (VCR) has given rise to a new economic phenomenon: the video store. The growth of the video store industry ... (read more)
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Policy Studies: Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate Eli Lehrer and Michelle Minton - May 18, 2009
For the second year in a row, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and The Heartland Institute asked two fundamental questions about America’s property ... (read more)
Eli Lehrer - March 17, 2008
This report card outlines the methodology and results of a joint Heartland Institute/Competitive Enterprise Institute project to produce a 50-state report ... (read more)
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Policy Studies: Taxes
Communication services today consist of voice, video, and Internet access services delivered over telephone wires, cable TV lines, or wirelessly (via point-to-point ... (read more)
Fred E. Foldvary - January 01, 2006
This analysis explains why land value taxation is, as Milton Friedman once put it, the “least bad” tax. An ideal tax system respects a person’s ... (read more)
Developing Neighborhood Alternatives project - March 26, 2003
In Part 1 of Volume 1, we summarize data on the effects of five TIF districts in Chicago, including changes in the number and types of businesses, number ... (read more)
Developing Neighborhood Alternatives project - March 26, 2003
Evaluations of TIF typically focus only on the number of new jobs thought to be created in the TIF district and how much property values rose. Such evaluations ... (read more)
Joseph L. Bast and Diane Carol Bast - April 01, 1997
To understand how tax policies in the U.S. ought to be changed, it is necessary to know how and why they have changed in the past. This report traces ... (read more)
Craig Jones - October 26, 1988
The superconducting super collider (SSC) is the subject of interest among government officials in the seven states, including Illinis and Michigan, ... (read more)
Joseph L. Bast, Charles Breeden, Robert J. Genetski, William J. Hunter, George P. Lephardt, and John W. Skorburg - June 10, 1987
Tax policies in Wisconsin are often the subject of long and frequently acrimonious debates. People disagree as to how high taxes are, who pays them, and ... (read more)
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WHAT'S NEW: Budget Sandra Fabry - March 18, 2010
Taxpayer advocates are proposing alternatives to President Barack Obama’s executive order establishing the so-called National Commission on Fiscal ... (read more)
Scott Hodge - March 10, 2010
A record number of the 142 million tax returns filed in 2008 resulted in no tax payment, according to a Tax Foundation analysis of IRS data. That means ... (read more)
Edited by Steve Stanek - April 01, 2010
The April 2010 issue of Budget & Tax News leads with a report on New York Gov. David Paterson’s new budget. With the state facing a budgetary ... (read more)
James G. Lakely - March 04, 2010
New York City residents pay the second highest cell phone tax rates in the nation, so high that a member of Congress is determined to prohibit the state ... (read more)
Jason Mercier - March 04, 2010
On three separate occasions (1993, 1998 and 2007) Washington state voters have approved an initiative or referendum to require a two-thirds vote of lawmakers ... (read more)
WHAT'S NEW: Taxes Sandra Fabry - March 18, 2010
Taxpayer advocates are proposing alternatives to President Barack Obama’s executive order establishing the so-called National Commission on Fiscal ... (read more)
Scott Hodge - March 10, 2010
A record number of the 142 million tax returns filed in 2008 resulted in no tax payment, according to a Tax Foundation analysis of IRS data. That means ... (read more)
Edited by Steve Stanek - April 01, 2010
The April 2010 issue of Budget & Tax News leads with a report on New York Gov. David Paterson’s new budget. With the state facing a budgetary ... (read more)
James G. Lakely - March 04, 2010
New York City residents pay the second highest cell phone tax rates in the nation, so high that a member of Congress is determined to prohibit the state ... (read more)
Jason Mercier - March 04, 2010
On three separate occasions (1993, 1998 and 2007) Washington state voters have approved an initiative or referendum to require a two-thirds vote of lawmakers ... (read more)
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