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Heritage Foundation - Economy

Xi Visit an Opportunity to Finally Establish China Priorities
The Obama Administration should use Xi Jinping’s visit to clarify American military, economic, and diplomatic priorities toward China.
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500
CBO Baseline Budget Outlook Shows Dismal State of U.S. Finances
The CBO budget outlook has reaffirmed the dismal state of the nation’s finances.
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:03:00 -0500
Entrepreneurship in Macroeconomic Forecasting Models
Macroeconomic models that attend to the margin will discover the entrepreneur inhabiting that margin, the same one who holds center stage in daily economic life.
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:33:00 -0500
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Concerns with Its Broad Powers
Within hours of Richard Cordray assuming the role of director at the CFPB, agency officials began exercising their newly expanded powers.
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:09:00 -0500
Top 5 Roles of the Government in Creating Jobs
Congress should take promptly five actions to get government out of the way of private sector job-creation: enact the New Flat Tax, free America’s energy markets, support free trade through international negotiation, halt unwarranted overregulation of markets, and repeal the government’s labor price-fixing for federal construction.
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:26:00 -0500
THE NEW FLAT TAX: Encourages Growth and Job Creation
The New Flat Tax replaces today’s convoluted tax system with a simple, neutral, and transparent tax system that will allow America to achieve its full economic potential.
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500
Obama's Insourcing Agenda Would Hurt Economy and Cost Jobs
The President’s call to tax more heavily U.S. businesses operating abroad would move in exactly the wrong direction.
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:28:00 -0500
Impact of Financial Transactions Tax on the Economy and Jobs
A financial transactions tax has always struggled to gain traction with Congress in the past, and that should remain the case.
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:09:00 -0500
Bill Beach on Economic New Year's Resolutions: Heritage in Focus Podcast
In this week's Heritage in Focus, Bill Beach discusses policy mistakes of 2011, and offers fresh economic principles to guide policy in 2012
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500
From Time to Trains, Government Is No Innovator
On virtually every policy issue and in most sectors of the economy, the left’s solutions call for bigger government. The clear implication of that worldview: We should trust government bureaucrats more than private individuals to innovate, create and provide prosperity and general well-being.
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Heritage Foundation - Federal Budget & Spending

Transportation Program: Reauthorization Another Big Spending Problem
Congress should eliminate wasteful transportation programs and reduce spending.
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:06:00 -0500
CBO Baseline Budget Outlook Shows Dismal State of U.S. Finances
The CBO budget outlook has reaffirmed the dismal state of the nation’s finances.
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:03:00 -0500
Obama's New Defense Guidance
The U.S. dramatically reduced defense spending after the Cold War. Since then, the military has been living off the build-up under Ronald Reagan. Defense increases after 9/11 were largely spent on 10 years of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, not modernization or recapitalizing forces (i.e., new planes, ships, or weapon systems). Today, the military is in dire need of repair, not another “peace dividend.”
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:46:00 -0500
1,000 Days Without A Budget
Today marks the 1,000th day since the United States Senate has passed a budget. While the House has put forth (and passed) its own budget, the Senate has failed to do the same. To help illustrate how extraordinary this failure has been, our new video highlights a few of impressive feats in history that have been accomplished in less time.
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:12:00 -0500
Government Spending: Goals for Congress and the President
Congress needs to fix several lingering fiscal problems and then pass a budget for the new year.
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:49:00 -0500
An Unacceptable Squeeze on Defense Modernization
DOD needs to prevent Budget Control Act cuts to its modernization budget and reform the military health care and retirement systems.
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:54:00 -0500
Lachlan Markay on Defense Spending on Bio-Fuels on FBN
Lachlan Markay discusses defense spending on bio-fuels.
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500
How to Fix the Budget Process: Proposals from Rep. Ryan
The restoration of budgeting requires Congress, above all, to renew its commitment to its basic governing obligations.
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:23:00 -0500
Defense Budget is Being Cut: By Any Way You Look at It
Some are asserting that the defense budget cuts required under the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA), or the “debt-limit deal”, will only reduce the rate of increase in the overall defense budget. While precise defense budget projections under the BCA are not possible, it is a certainty that the overall defense budget will decline under its terms.
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:56:00 -0500
5 Appropriations Criteria to Curb Runaway Federal Spending and Debt
Congress can still recover some shreds of credibility in budgeting if Members are willing to truly take their fiscal duties seriously.
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:09:00 -0500

Heritage Foundation - Taxes

Tax Reform: 5 To-Do Lists Focusing on Growth
Stopping tax increases and improving the tax code are necessary steps to create the growth the economy so badly needs.
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:41:00 -0500
Top 5 Roles of the Government in Creating Jobs
Congress should take promptly five actions to get government out of the way of private sector job-creation: enact the New Flat Tax, free America’s energy markets, support free trade through international negotiation, halt unwarranted overregulation of markets, and repeal the government’s labor price-fixing for federal construction.
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:26:00 -0500
THE NEW FLAT TAX: Encourages Growth and Job Creation
The New Flat Tax replaces today’s convoluted tax system with a simple, neutral, and transparent tax system that will allow America to achieve its full economic potential.
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500
Obama's Insourcing Agenda Would Hurt Economy and Cost Jobs
The President’s call to tax more heavily U.S. businesses operating abroad would move in exactly the wrong direction.
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:28:00 -0500
Official Time of Federal Employees
Official time effectively subsidizes government unions with taxpayer dollars.
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500
Curtis Dubay on the Payroll Tax on FBN
Curtis Dubay discusses the payroll tax debate.
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500
What is Flat Tax? Understanding the New Flat Tax
The New Flat Tax is simple, revenue-neutral, and will allow America to achieve its full economic potential.
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:31:00 -0500
Istook911 Taxes and Obama
Istook Obamacare taxes higher than any of his claimed tax cuts
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500
Istook894 Christmas Tree Tax
Istook new federal fee on Christmas Trees
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500
Three Pillars of Budget Reform for the Super Committee
The super committee must set priorities and make bold decisions to solve Washington’s spending and debt crisis.
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:55:00 -0400

Heritage Foundation - Health

5 Flawed Arguments Against Medicare Premium Support
The introduction of the bipartisan Wyden–Ryan premium support plan for Medicare ensures that reform of the government’s largest health entitlement program will continue to be a major topic of debate in 2012.
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:51:00 -0500
Six Key Elements of Medicare Premium Support Proposals
Premium support proposals to reform the Medicare program would provide beneficiaries with a financial contribution to purchase Medicare coverage
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:43:00 -0500
Understanding Medicare Premium Support and its Key Features
For the next generation of taxpayers and retirees, there is no better option than premium support.
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:31:00 -0500
CMS's Final Regulations on Accountable Care Organizations
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued final regulations for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). The outcome is disappointing
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:59:00 -0500
Saving Medicaid: A Path to Comprehensive Medicaid Reform
The joint federal–state health program for the poor is fueling the federal entitlement crisis, bankrupting state budgets, and delivering substandard care to enrollees while crowding out private health insurance options for many
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:47:00 -0500
Dr. Bob Moffit on Obamacare and the End of Medicare As We Know It: Heritage in Focus Podcast
In this week's Heritage in Focus podcast, Dr. Bob Moffit discusses his new paper, "Obamacare Ends Medicare As We Know It." David Weinberger hosts.
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500
Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute's Health Care Priorities
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s (PCORI) priorities do not change concerns that its findings will be used to limit treatment options.
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:45:00 -0500
Obamacare: Obama Ends Medicare As We Know It
Obamacare makes massive changes to Medicare. Obamacare contains more than 160 provisions to the program that increases government’s control over the delivery of care, hits doctors with unsustainable payment cuts, and leaves taxpayers with higher deficits.
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:03:00 -0500
Costs to States of Non Compliance with PPACA's Medicaid Expansion
In March 2012, two years after the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the Supreme Court will hear challenges to the federal health care legislation. One issue the court will take up is whether the PPACA’s Medicaid expansion constitutes a coercive infringement on state sovereignty by the federal government. Relevant to that dispute is the economic burden to a state that—in the face of the impending PPACA-mandated Medicaid expansion—decides to end its participation in Medicaid, thus forfeiting its entire federal Medicaid funding. This Heritage Foundation analysis attempts to calculate that burden.
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:31:00 -0500
How Competition Improves Quality: The Case of Medicare Advantage
In 2003, the Medicare Modernization Act created the Medicare Advantage program, which allowed seniors to choose coverage from private health plans. Both recent research published in The American Journal of Managed Care by Niall Brennan and Mark Shepard and another analysis by America’s Health Insurance Plans use HEDIS measures and state-based data on hospital utilization, respectively, to compare the quality of care received by enrollees in Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare fee-for-service. The studies found the new program performed better than traditional Medicare on a number of measures, including delivery of care car and hospital utilization.
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:05:00 -0500