How will Heritage realize its goals?
Heritage's job is simple -- We make sure that policymakers have the ideas and research they need to turn conservative ideals into policy. Whether it's budget analysis, a study of the best way to fight crime, or a new approach to free welfare recipients from government dependency, Heritage is there with the facts and figures, the ideas and strategies, and the experience and resources to make the crucial difference.
Fighting for tax reform
When reporters call White House officials for details on the Bush Tax Cuts, they are often told to “Call Heritage”.That’s because your support helped build our Center for Data Analysis, which is now THE reliable, unbiased source for accurate analysis of any tax or spending proposal.
Now, as we battle those who think the cure for a slow economy to tax you MORE, never have our data analysis and our new ideas been more critical. Why should the Bush tax cuts be made permanent?How do tax cuts rescue a faltering economy?How can tax HIKES destroy an economy?Click here for the facts.
Battling the liberal bias in the media
When is a terrorist not a terrorist?When his massacre of 3,000 innocent Americans is covered by liberals in the American media.
25 years ago, it was almost impossible to find a conservative interviewed in the national news.Today, your support of Heritage has made us not just the conservative voice – we’re the expert resource many journalists turn to because they know we have the FACTS.
But our battle is far from over – just watch the nightly network news.But there’s only so much clout the biased journalists can have when our Heritage experts are on TV, radio and in print hundreds of times each month.
Hundreds of judgeships stand vacant right now – with criminals going unpunished – because liberals in the U.S. Senate refuse to confirm Bush appointees whose qualifications are unquestioned, but who dare to have conservative views.In one federal court circuit, 50% of the seats are vacant because nominees have not passed the liberals’ litmus test.
Alarmingly, very few Americans know about this crisis or the unprecedented stonewalling of the Senate liberals.It is a despicable abuse of Senate privilege that could affect every aspect of our lives for DECADES to come.Your support of Heritage is helping us lead the battle to expose this latest liberal outrage.For more facts, read Senator Mitch McConnell’s recent Heritage lecture.
What Do Others Think About Our Work?
Conservatives:
"Some of the finest conservatives in America today do their work in the Heritage Foundation. For those of you new to all this, The Heritage Foundation is America's leading conservative think-tank."
– Rush Limbaugh
"Keep up the wonderful work of truth which emanates from Heritage."
– John Ashcroft
"Your frequent publications, timely research, policy papers, seminars and conferences account for your enormous influence on Capitol Hill and -- believe me, I know - at the White House."
– Ronald Reagan
"Inside Congress, everything is so rushed and urgent, we never sit down and talk policy, and where the country's going to be 5, 10 years from now. It's got to come from the outside. That's what Heritage does. The power to change is going to have to come from the outside."
– Rep. Jim De Mint
Liberals:
"It is hard to overstate the impact The Heritage Foundation has had on the direction of U.S. policy since the late 1970s." —Democratic Policy Committee (1996)
"The acknowledged leader in think tank marketing is The Heritage Foundation."
– R. Kent Weaver, The Brookings Institution
