(Original Post) The Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) September 20, 2009 SundaySunrise Edition TAXING THE RICH It’s not class warfare, it’s just common sense NEAL PEIRCE In a dramatic break from…
Evasive Maneuvers Posted November 10, 2010 Original Post In a previous post, I showed how the majority of funding for education and other public services comes from state and local…
(Orignal Post) Says taxes paid by the poorest residents of Texas are above the national average. Paul Krugman on Monday, February 28th, 2011 in an op-ed column. Paul Krugman says…
(Original post) By Mark Trumbull April 15, 2011 As Republicans square off with the Obama administration on how much to tax the wealthiest Americans, a new report suggests the overall…
Original Post By Mark EnglerMay 24, 2011 In 2009, when then-New York Gov. David Paterson signed a temporary tax increase on the state’s wealthiest individuals — one of the so-called…
Original Post By Matthew Gardner, Executive Director Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy July 28, 2011 Twelve new governors who ran on anti-tax platforms have now signed their first fiscal…
NB: CTJ Modified the original story’s title, which can be found in the original article at the URL below. Original Post by Win Vitkowsky August 2, 2011 Connecticut’s wealthiest 1…
Original Post August 2, 2011 by Ashlea Ebeling Down to the wire — again. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed legislation Aug. 1 making Massachusetts the 17th state to officially announce…
Original Post July 31, 2011 COMMENTARY Twelve new governors who ran on anti-tax platforms have now signed their first fiscal year budgets. All of them will tell you they were…
Original Post August 5, 2011 by Karen Hube Many executives of big public companies have shared their ideas about corporate tax reform in hearings before policy makers lately. Just last…
Original Post August 5, 2011 by Kelly McParland All good situation comedies produce spin-offs, so it should come as no surprise that the wildly popular laugh-a-thon know as the U.S.…
August 5, 2011 BATON ROUGE — State officials say the sales tax holiday today and Saturday only costs the state $3.7 million, but the director of the Louisiana Budget Project…
Original Post August 6, 2011 by Jayne O’Donnell The back-to-school sales tax holidays that start Friday in many states may be popular with politicians and retailers, but critics say revenue-starved…
Original Post August 6, 2011 by Carolyn Shapiro Rich Tourville stopped Friday morning at JCPenney at Greenbrier Mall to pick up a birthday present and back-to-school clothes for his son,…
by Len Lazarick August 12, 2011 Professor Roy Meyers, the government budgeting expert at UMBC, says the focus of our ongoing stories and comment strings “on the flight/plight of the…
Original Post August 12, 2011 by Sheryl Nance-Nash ‘Tis the sales-tax-holiday season, when states give the gift of tax-free shopping for clothing, computers and other back-to-school supplies. It seems like…
August 16, 2011 by Simon Rios EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a five-day series of stories profiling leaders in Nashua’s Latino community. Only a small percentage of Americans…
Original Post August 17, 2011 by Kathryn Glass There are very few situations in life that are truly a win-win, but the idea of a week of shopping sans sales…
Also featured in Huffpost Hill Digest on August 19, 2011 Original Post August 19, 2011 by Laura Bassett During his presidential campaign announcement speech last week, Texas Gov. Rick Perry…
By DAVE HELLING Talk about a tax break. While all the attention this summer was focused on the federal debt and tax policy in Washington, some lawmakers and activists closer…
Original Post September 1, 2011 by Rania Khalek With the campaign season for Republican presidential primaries in full bloom, the candidates are falling all over each other in a fierce…
by Chuck Sudo August 7, 2011 How deadbeat of a state is Illinois? So much so that the state won’t be offering a sales tax holiday for back-to-school sales this…
August 7, 2011 Gannett news service Unlike last year, there will be no “back-to-school” sales tax holiday in Illinois this year. State Sen. Toi Hutchinson (D-Chicago), who was chief sponsor…
Original Post August 21, 2011 by Brad Knickerbocker Jon Huntsman and Rick Perry represent very different views of how a Republican can beat Barack Obama in 2012. To jazz up…
