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Salon: Behind the 1 Percent’s Brazen New Scheme to Raise Your Taxes and Cut Their Own
June 2, 2014
By Paul Rosenberg, June 2, 2014 You might think that tax cuts that pay for themselves had disappeared from rational discourse ages ago. If so, you’d be sadly mistaken. Instead, “rationality” has been redefined to make such tax cuts “true by definition,” at least in one economic model that’s playing an influential role in state-level […]
Boston Globe: Tax the Roads, Not Fuel
June 2, 2014
By Jeff Jacoby, June 2, 2014 For decades, gasoline taxes have been the largest source of funds for building and fixing America’s highways. What happens if those funds dry up? Gasoline sales have been trending downward in recent years, thanks in part to more fuel-efficient cars, which travel farther and farther between fill-ups. That trend […]
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Ten Good Reason to Vote against the Transportation Sales Tax
June 2, 2014
By the Editorial Board, May 31, 2014 It has been said of this editorial page that we’ve never met a tax increase we didn’t like. That’s not entirely true, but it’s close. We tend to favor fair taxes used in the common good for vital public services. But now we’ve studied the three-quarter-cent state sales […]
The Christian Science Monitor: Hurricane Season Is Here, and Preparation Is Tax-Free
June 2, 2014
By Renu Zaretsky, June 2, 2014 Hurricane season began yesterday, and millionaires or not, Floridians can purchase hurricane supplies sales-tax free until June 8. Eligible items include ice packs, flashlights, portable radios, portable generators, Tiki torches, and certain batteries (AAs are tax-free, AAAs are not). Sales tax holidays grew more popular as states carried budget surpluses: They were seen as a way […]
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