Occasions for those in house we dd that courtesy to check that our various mobile devices have been silent or turned off as we to begin and those watching online youre welcome to send questions or comments at anytime. Simply emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Discussion this. Orning is doctor mullhausen frequently before ongress on the efficiency and effectiveness of federal programs and hes been featured publications and frequently appears on National Television as well. His book do federal social programs work, reviews rigorous studies that almost unanimously find that they fail social problems they were designed to address. As adjunct es professor where he teaches evaluation and tatistical methods to graduate institutes. Please join me. David . Thank you. Good morning. Heritage e to the foundation. Online, of you welcome to, todays event. Federal ing the government and what needs to be done and how to do it. There are panelists of in of rience with the workings the federal governmen
Medical professionals who treat addiction, lawmakers from hard hit areas, we want to in just a little bit. Well open our phone lines and you how the Opioid Epidemic is affecting you personally, first, part of our conversation from the author of he book dream land, the true tale of americas opiate epidemic. I want to ask you about something you wrote on your blog. Days g about heroin these is another way of writing about america. Who we are and what weve become. That. Ou explain sure. I began, it began to occur to me as i began to write. In the middle of this project, and i began to wonder this problem was affecting appalachian, but why it was affecting charlotte and salt lake and places that did very well in the last 20 to 30 years, not rustbelt areas at all. Common denominator . I began to understand that the denominator was our own isolation and that you were really writing about much bigger than simply Drug Trafficking. My background is as a crime thought i was writing a book about
Reagan spent so much time here in this beautiful setting. Im chairman of the reagan ranch board of governors. Young Americans Foundation purchased the reagan ranch almost two decades ago. Our goals are to preserve it as a Historic Property and use it as a vehicle to train and to educate Young Americans about president reagans principles of limited government, Economic Growth and an Important Role for america in todays world. There was no issue that president reagan was more identified with than tax reform. Reagan sponsored two major tax bills, one he signed right here in 1981. The second that we formed the tax code for the last time in 1986. As reagan said in a National Address in may 1985, for the sake of fairness and growth, he must radically change the structure of a tax system that still treats our earnings as probably as the personal property of the Internal Revenue service. It treats incomes much differently regarding the tax that they pay. Yes, radically change system that still
Reagan spent so much time here in this beautiful setting. Im chairman of the reagan ranch board of governors. Young Americans Foundation purchased the reagan ranch almost two decades ago. Our goals are to preserve it as a Historic Property and use it as a vehicle to train and to educate Young Americans about president reagans principles of limited government, Economic Growth and an Important Role for america in todays world. There was no issue that president reagan was more identified with than tax reform. Reagan sponsored two major tax bills, one he signed right here in 1981. The second that we formed the tax code for the last time in 1986. As reagan said in a National Address in may 1985, for the sake of fairness and growth, he must radically change the structure of a tax system that still treats our earnings as probably as the personal property of the Internal Revenue service. It treats incomes much differently regarding the tax that they pay. Yes, radically change system that still
District in the state of utah, approximately 90 public land. I am the legislator in the Grand Staircase monument which encompasses a huge area so i have a pretty good knowledge of this. I one time worked as a Land Management special met specialist with the bureau of Land Management and was working on projects when the Grand Staircase was created. I am very interested in the calls this morning and i hope we can get our point across of why we think downsizing bears heirs and the Grand Staircase is good for the people of utah and us as people,ow who live in the sovereign state of utah, that we can have the money we need to educate our children, take care of our health care system, and provide the income. I have heard a lot of comments this morning about how these lands are free and there is no taxes on them. That is because of the fact that the people in the state of utah get almost no money in terms of tax based on these lands, which has put us in a position, unfortunate position to be o