Budget and Tax News Podcast

By The Heartland Institute

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The Heartland Institute podcast featuring libertarian and conservative scholars who advocate for lower taxes, less spending, less regulation, more economic freedom, and vibrant free markets.

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Budget and Tax News Podcast episodes:

04.11.2023
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...
03.29.2023
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...
03.09.2023
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...
02.02.2023
In Defense of the 2nd Amendment (Guest: Larry Correia)
In his book, "In Defense of the 2nd Amendment," Larry Correia offers a powerful and easily understandable explanation of the positive impact firearms have on our lives.
02.01.2023
Why Are So Many Cities Bankrupt? (Guest: Mark Moses)
Cities across the nation are in financial reason for a plethora of reasons under a singular umbrella. Author Mark Moses joins the show to discuss the core issue.
08.30.2022
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...
08.23.2022
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...
06.02.2022
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...
03.14.2022
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...
02.16.2022
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...
11.16.2021
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...
11.09.2021
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...
06.08.2021
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...
06.03.2021
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...
06.02.2021
H.R. 1 Makes it Illegal to Ask a Voter if They’re a Citizen
Joe Morris, assistant Attorney General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan and Chairman of the Board of Directors for The Heartland Institute, joins The Other Side of the Story with Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris to discuss...
05.20.2021
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,...
04.29.2021
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...
04.19.2021
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...
04.01.2021
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...
03.31.2021
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,...
03.17.2021
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...
03.09.2021
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...
03.02.2021
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...
02.11.2021
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...
02.09.2021
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...
01.21.2021
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...
10.29.2020
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...
10.21.2020
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...
07.15.2020
World Leaders Call for Radical 'Great Reset' of Global Capitalism
Some of the world's most powerful leaders in the U.K. royal family, United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and a number of major corporations are calling for a "reset" of global capitalism. They call it the "Great Reset," and it's terrifying. We're...
06.08.2020
Business Survival During COVID-19 (Guest: Jon Meadows)
Jon Meadows, owner and photographer at High End Headshots and author of Making Bank with Photography: 10 principles that changed my life, joins the show. The discussion breaks down into how small business owners have been impacted by COVID-19 and...
05.27.2020
Postal Service vs. Donald Trump (Guest: Ed Hudgins)
President Donald Trump wants the U.S. Postal Service to reform in order to reduce the burden on taxpayers. As a free-market think tank, we obviously agree here at Heartland. The question is: should we be forcing this change during COVID-19?
05.04.2020
Weighing the Costs and Benefits of the Coronavirus Shutdown (Guest: Charles Steele)
Americans’ fundamental, constitutionally guaranteed rights aren't voided during a pandemic, yet governors have illegally acted as if they are. In addition, many governors' overreactions to the coronavirus threatens to bankrupt millions of small businesses while doing incalculable damage to the...
04.07.2020
Not Even Socialists Know the Meaning of Communism (Justin Haskins and Donald Kendal)
Ask someone on the street if socialism and communism are different. Everyone will say yes. Then, ask them what the differences are. Almost nobody can answer that question. Donald Kendal and Justin Haskins break down both socialism and communism. How are...
04.02.2020
How this Plays Out: an Interview with James Rickards
The pandemic and corresponding draconian containment efforts have created an economic and financial situation unseen since the Great Depression. Everyone wants to know whether the economy will rebound quickly or if we will experience a prolonged recession. How does this play...
03.02.2020
A View from Silicon Valley (Guest: Patrick Peterson)
How come Silicon Valley, the innovative tech hub of the world which has most benefitted from economic liberty, seems to be populated by leftists who love Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who want to take away that freedom and...
02.28.2020
In The Tank (Ep232) – Bernie Sanders’ Spending Proposals are INSANE!
Heartland's Donald Kendal, and Justin Haskins are joined by Isaac Orr in episode 232 of the In The Tank Podcast. The latest debate brought us some laughs as well as some scowls. Sanders, the target of the night, defended the...
02.21.2020
In The Tank (Ep231) – The False Choice of Medicare 4 All, Dem Debate #9
Heartland's Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Jim Lakely present episode 231 of the In The Tank Podcast. The gloves came off in the ninth Democratic Presidential debate and it was glorious. Also, our own Justin Haskins was featured in a...
02.12.2020
Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Guest: Peter Voss)
Peter Voss, Founder of SmartAction (https://www.smartaction.ai/) and CEO/Chief Scientist of AGI Innovations, Inc., has spent many years studying communications and human intelligence in order to build machines with artificial intelligence attempting to match it. His company helped turn these designs...
02.05.2020
Sander's Outrageous Spending Plans
Going into the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Bernie Sanders looked to have a strong performance. Nobody could have predicted the results after it began, but assuming Sanders would come out on top, or at least near the top, was almost guaranteed....
02.03.2020
Data Privacy for All (Guest: Rep. Josh Yokela)
Representative Josh Yokela of New Hampshire joins Heartland hosts Robert Davis and Lennie Jarratt in discussing his newly introduced amendment to the New Hampshire constitution on data privacy. The amendment would protect the private information of citizens given to third-party companies...
01.24.2020
Trump in Davos on the American Economic Boom and the Prophets of Climate Doom
President Trump traveled to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week and he had a lot of good economic news from the United States to share: record low unemployment, millions of new jobs, a booming energy sector, a...
01.15.2020
Summing Up the Jan. 14th Democratic Debate
Last night, the final Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses took place with six candidates on stage - Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Tom Steyer. The two hour debate was exhaustive covering a variety...
01.08.2020
Twenty-One and You
Recently, two separate pieces of legislation went into affect that upped the age of activities from 18 to 21. First, President Donald Trump signed into law a ban on the sale of tobacco and vaping products effective immediately. Secondly, the...
01.01.2020
Cutting Through Scandanavian Socialism Lies
For a long time socialists have tried to use Scandanavian countries as model countries for socialism and not the abysmal failures such as Venezuela. It turns out that these countries have already tried these policies shortly after World War II...
12.19.2019
Debunking the Scandinavian Socialism Myth
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are two prominent US politicians who describe themselves as democratic socialists. They love to tout the wonders of their ideology, but when pressured with evidence of how abhorrent the living conditions in socialist...
11.12.2019
How Radical Social Entrepreneurs Can Revolutionizing Education and Much More! (Guest Michael Strong)
In a free market, entrepreneurs provide goods and services to satisfy the unmet consumer needs, including for products like laptops, smartphones, the internet that consumers don’t even know they needed but are delighted to find can enhance their lives. Meet Michael...
10.31.2019
A CareerWise Apprenticeship Path to the Jobs of the Future! (Guest: Noel Ginsburg)
Labor markets are changing quickly. Will our kids be prepared for high-paying jobs or destine for the unemployment line? For years there’s been a serious disconnect between our education system and the needs of students to acquire the skills and training...
10.09.2019
The Hostile Robot Takeover (Guest: Ed Hudgins)
New York Mayor DeBlasio has called for a robot tax. He says that robots threaten people’s jobs, and me must tax them to ensure employment throughout the economy. The question is: Do robots pose an imminent threat to employment around...
08.29.2019
Labor Day Interview with Labor Secretary Pat Pizzella!
In this exclusive interview, Acting Secretary of Labor Patrick Pizzella highlights the great job creation, especially for minorities, over the past two and a half years. He explains how a proposed reform will give high school students greater access to...
08.08.2019
Budget Bill ‘Kicks the Can Down the Road,’ Where Red Light Cameras Lurk (Guest: U.S. Rep. Ron Wright)
U.S. Rep. Ron Wright (R-TX), joins the podcast to discuss the debt ceiling increase and budget-busting spending bill Congress just passed. Wright voted against the measure in the House. Wright also discusses his bill H.R. 2962, the Traffic Camera Freedom Act,...

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Budget and Tax News Podcast episodes:

Trump Is Indicted, What’s Next?

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

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

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

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

The Inflation Reduction Act Is ‘Welfare for the Wealthy'

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

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

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

Freedom of Speech Is Under Attack by Big Tech Corporations

AOC Proposes MORE Spending to Fight Inflation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gun Legislation in the Biden Era

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

The Destruction of the US Economy

Dark Money in Washington DC (Guest: Dan Pilla)

Reckless Federal Government Spending (Guest: Justin Goodman)

Conversation With Iowa Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver

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

An Economic Assessment of the Fair Tax

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

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)