Budget and Tax News Podcast

Trump Is Indicted, What’s Next?

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg did what the left has wanted for years, served Trump with an indictment. Under what charges? Bragg’s case states that Trump’s payment to Stormy Daniels in exchange for signing a non-disclosure agreement violated campaign financing laws, a flimsy argument at best. Chris Talgo, editorial director at The Heartland Institute, joins The Kristian Garic Show to discuss the indictment and what Americans can expect going forwards.

Silicon Valley Bank Was a Woke Bank, and it Was Wokeness That Brought it Down

 The other day, Heartland Vice President Jim Lakely was a guest on The Mark Reardon Show on 97.1 FM Talk in St. Louis. I was invited on the show to talk about the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and how much woke politics had to do with it. That bank and our federal regulators were a lot more interested in advancing left wing political goals, such as donating to Black Lives Matter, seeking investment equity, and fighting for "climate justice" -- whatever that is -- than it was ...

Lauren Boebert on Climate, Energy, and Politics at Heartland Institute Climate Conference

 At The Heartland Institute's 15th International Conference on Climate Change on February 25, 2023, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado gave a keynote address. She spoke about the concessions a group of 20 conservatives, including her, got from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy before they would put him in that post. She also talked about how she fights for sensible policy from her perch on the House Resources Committee and the other freedom-oriented policies she fights for in the House...

In Defense of the 2nd Amendment (Guest: Larry Correia)

Larry Correia's book, "In Defense of the 2nd Amendment," provides a powerful and accessible explanation of the positive role firearms play in our lives. It explains why good guys with guns are a critical layer of defense and why the 2nd Amendment was adopted. The book argues that you are your own first line of defense in critical situations and that firearms make this defense possible. Correia explains that those who want to ban guns do not necessarily hate guns themselves. Often, ...

Why Are So Many Cities Bankrupt? (Guest: Mark Moses)

Cities across the United States are in a persistent financial crisis because their governments are unable or unwilling to define who and what they are. In fact, many cities’ finances are so poor that they’re going bankrupt. The fundamental problem is that city governments attempt a scope of service provision that is impossible to deliver on. Policy Analyst Mark Moses, author of The Municipal Financial Crisis: A Framework for Understanding and Fixing Government Budgeting, joins the B...

The Inflation Reduction Act Is ‘Welfare for the Wealthy'

H. Sterling Burnett joins the podcast The District with Teresa Mull to discuss the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act. Burnett highlights how this bill is simply a renamed version of the Build Back Better plan. Biden and Congressional Democrats are taking advantage of the pain that Americans are feeling due to inflation their own progressive policies created. They truly didn’t let this crisis go to waste. Check out more episodes of The District here: https://spectatorworld.com...

Inflation Is Going Away, But for Reasons You’re Not Told (Guest: Donald Luskin)

The government wants you to think its policies are reducing inflation. This isn’t the truth. Inflation is going away because government money infusion is over. Inflation is always a monetary problem of too much money chasing too few goods. The COVID lockdown saw the greatest infusion of money in the shortest time in the history of the world at a time when the economy that was shut down. That spending is over and the economy is turning out goods and services again, so the cause of th...

Guns, Schools, and Markets Are Critical to African Americans' Freedom and Success (Guest: Kevin McGary)

Kevin McGary of the Fredrick Douglas Foundation of California and Every Black Life Matters says liberals and progressives are wrong. The 2nd amendment is absolute and essential for African Americans. More, public schools and socialism are terrible for the black community in America. Individual initiative and free choice are critical to success. African American's should embrace gun ownership for self-protection and protection against tyranny; school choice; and a ban of teaching Cri...

The Right to Bear Arms, A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class?

As a defense against the federal government sinking into tyranny, the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States prohibits the government from abrogating or otherwise interfering with the average person’s right to keep and bear arms. Elites have been chipping away at this right ever since. Courts, often composed of elites, have failed to defend American’s Second Amendment rights. Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D., Senior Fellow with the Independent Institute and author of T...

Freedom of Speech Is Under Attack by Big Tech Corporations

Freedom of speech is an unalienable right. It is not granted by government. It preexists the government itself. The Founding Fathers established the United States of America to protect our unalienable rights. Today, freedom of speech is under a direct threat. In the United States, there are three corporations that control 97 percent of social media activity. One company controls 75 percent. Three companies controlling 97 percent isn’t problematic in and of itself, but the suppressio...

AOC Proposes MORE Spending to Fight Inflation

Our second-favorite socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, recently weighed in on the inflation debate, saying we need the government to spend MORE money to counteract inflation. In addition, she also gave her two cents on the recent elections in Virginia. Stopping Socialism's Donald Kendal and Chris Talgo break down her insane comments in this episode of "Stopping Socialism."

Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul (Guest: Brian Kilmeade)

Fox & Friends co-host and New York Times best selling author Brian Kilmeade joins the Heartland Daily Podcast to discuss his new book, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul. This is Kilmeade's third time on the Heartland podcast talking about his popular history books. Hosts Jim Lakely and Chris Talgo talk to Kilmeade about the relationship between Lincoln and Douglass, the development of their special friendship, the state of race relations i...

The Heartland Institute Safeguards Your Individual Freedoms (Guest: H. Sterling Burnett)

The government The Founding Fathers envisioned was a force for good. Its limited role was to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If alive today, they would balk at what our government has become. Rampant government intervention seen today skews markets and limits the freedom of the individual. H. Sterling Burnett joins the Great Talks With podcast to describe how The Heartland Institute discovers, develops, and promotes free-market solutions to social and economic ...

Florida Aims to End Social Media Censorship (Guest: Jim Lakely)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill into law that aims to protect social media users from being censored or de-platformed. Jim Lakely joins the Jeff Katz show to discuss how this law is a step in the right direction for protecting free speech online. Until now, big tech companies have had free rein to censor whomever they choose, with users having little to no recourse to fight back. The Florida law aims to change that.

H.R. 1 Makes it Illegal to Ask a Voter if They’re a Citizen

New Poll Finds CNN Viewers Are Wildly Misinformed on Key Issues

Who is the most informed on key issues? Is it viewers of Fox News? How about CNN, MSNBC, or other left-leaning media? Many have hypothesized on this question, but it’s been impossible to quantify until now. In conjunction with Rasmussen Reports, The Heartland Institute conducted a poll that asked participants key factual questions. These participants were also asked about where they receive their news. It became exceedingly clear that viewers of CNN are wildly misinformed about man...

President Biden's Gun Control Executive Orders Won't Solve Any Problems

H. Sterling Burnett joins Merrill Matthews from the Institute for Policy Innovation to discuss gun control. President Joe Biden is, rather unsurprisingly, pushing for more restrictive gun control laws. Aside from calling for legislation to unconstitutionally limit the ownership and sale of firearms, he offered a series of executive orders he says are first steps to reduce "gun violence." His proposals amount to virtue signaling on the gun issue and will do nothing to prevent crimes...

Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdowns (Guest: Donald Luskin)

There are many lessons we should take away from the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic shutdowns imposed by governments. First, lockdowns don't work. They didn't halt the spread of the virus, and any many ways resulted in unnecessary suffering and death. It turns out masks do work. The economy declined by a huge amount, yet because the cause was exogenous to the market, and the lack of spending meant people saved more than they ever had, the recovery has been quick and is...

Why We Must Fight Big Tech to Protect Free Speech on Social Media

Heartland Institute President James Taylor explains why we must all must fight to protect free speech on the internet. State legislators, too, have a role in protecting the right of their constituents to speak freely on line. As he said in a recent live Heartland Webinar, Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act does not address or preclude state action to protect political free speech on the Internet. "Section 230 does not give the tech giants, the tech cartel, the ri...

Gun Legislation in the Biden Era

H. Sterling Burnett joins Dr. Merrill Matthews on Point of View radio to discuss gun legislation in the Joe Biden era. Joe Biden has promised to enact more strict legislation regarding gun ownership. As a supporter of the 2nd amendment, H. Sterling Burnett discusses why this legislation will fail to end gun violence but will encroach upon the freedoms America was founded on.

Talking Dr. Seuss, Cancel Culture on 'Chicago Tonight'

Heartland Institute Publications Director S.T. Karnick was invited on the flagship news program on Chicago's PBS station to talk about how beloved children's author Dr. Seuss is at the center of a cancel culture controversy over what some have characterized as racist depictions in many of his books and cartoons.

The Destruction of the US Economy

Justin Haskins joins the Morning Show with Preston Scott to discuss government policies threatening the US economy. Justin starts by describing how the lockdowns are destroying live. People are losing their businesses, their jobs, and their savings. More, there's little evidence to show the lockdowns effectively stopped transmission of COVID-19. Haskins continues by describing how the national debt requires the government to keep interest rates low, benefiting those who can borrow ...

Dark Money in Washington DC (Guest: Dan Pilla)

Dan Pilla, executive director at the Tax Freedom Institute and policy advisor for The Heartland Institute, joins Dr. Merrill Matthews on Point of View radio to discuss the dark money circulated throughout Washington DC. They discuss possible dark money ties to the riots seen in the capital. Pilla also discusses how taxes have changed throughout the insanity that was 2020. How did the coronavirus change the tax code? How does the stimulus money factor in? What does the Joe Biden adm...

Reckless Federal Government Spending (Guest: Justin Goodman)

Christina Herrin, government relations manager of health policy, interviews Justin Goodman of the White Coat Waste Project on reckless federal spending. The discussion focuses on federal agency spending, transparency, and the need to end tax payer dollars going to government run experiments on animals.  Learn more at:  https://www.whitecoatwaste.org/

Conversation With Iowa Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver

Christina Herrin, government relations manager of health policy, discusses the state of Iowa’s legislator during the COVID-19 pandemic with Iowa Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver. The conversation focuses on the legislative agenda for 2021. Sen. Whitver explains how Iowa has dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic, the benefits of school choice for Iowa, and how conservative tax policies benefit the state. To stay up to date on Sen. Whitver, follow: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/j...

Fighting Big Tech Social Media Censorship (Guest: Justin Danhof)

Big social media companies driven not by profit and the good of their shareholders but by the leftist ideology are colluding with Democrats to suppress political speech and deplatform conservatives. This poses a huge threat to the continuation of a free constitutional republic. Conservatives must become more involved as shareholders to push balanced corporate policies and to refocus corporations on maximizing profits for their shareholders rather than pursuing liberal social and eco...

An Economic Assessment of the Fair Tax

Three famous economists - Arthur B. Laffer, Ph.D., Stephen Moore, and Erwin J. Antoni, Ph.D - present their new paper for The Heartland Institute titled "Will the Last Taxpayer in Illinois Please Turn Out the Lights: An Economic Assessment of the Illinois ‘Fair Tax’." The report: www.heartland.org/_template-assets…airTaxReport.pdf The economists’ research says passage of the so-called "Fair Tax" ballot initiative, which voters will decide on November 3, would:  hit small busines...

Happy Human Achievement Day! Celebrating the Spirit of Invention (Guest: Ed Hudgins)

In this episode of the Heartland Daily Podcast, Ed and Heartland Institute Vice President Jim Lakely discuss the importance of celebrating human ingenuity, some of the giants of human achievement, the conditions that allow both to thrive, and the importance of teaching that to America's youth. Visit: https://humanachievementalliance.org/

World Leaders Call for Radical 'Great Reset' of Global Capitalism

Business Survival During COVID-19 (Guest: Jon Meadows)

Postal Service vs. Donald Trump (Guest: Ed Hudgins)

Weighing the Costs and Benefits of the Coronavirus Shutdown (Guest: Charles Steele)

Not Even Socialists Know the Meaning of Communism (Justin Haskins and Donald Kendal)

How this Plays Out: an Interview with James Rickards

A View from Silicon Valley (Guest: Patrick Peterson)

In The Tank (Ep232) – Bernie Sanders’ Spending Proposals are INSANE!

In The Tank (Ep231) – The False Choice of Medicare 4 All, Dem Debate #9

Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Guest: Peter Voss)

Sander's Outrageous Spending Plans

Data Privacy for All (Guest: Rep. Josh Yokela)

Trump in Davos on the American Economic Boom and the Prophets of Climate Doom

Summing Up the Jan. 14th Democratic Debate

Twenty-One and You

Cutting Through Scandanavian Socialism Lies

Debunking the Scandinavian Socialism Myth

How Radical Social Entrepreneurs Can Revolutionizing Education and Much More! (Guest Michael Strong)

A CareerWise Apprenticeship Path to the Jobs of the Future! (Guest: Noel Ginsburg)

The Hostile Robot Takeover (Guest: Ed Hudgins)

Labor Day Interview with Labor Secretary Pat Pizzella!

Budget Bill ‘Kicks the Can Down the Road,’ Where Red Light Cameras Lurk (Guest: U.S. Rep. Ron Wright)