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media mention May 22, 2023 Washington Post: How California’s Wild Weather Brought the Debt-Ceiling ‘X Date’ Closer
As President Biden and lawmakers scramble to strike a debt ceiling deal before the government runs out of money, each day counts — to the tune of about $17 billion. That’s how… -
media mention May 16, 2023 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Politics of the Debt Ceiling Fight: A Numbers Game
Republicans focus on the size of the federal debt in demanding spending cuts in exchange for lifting the debt ceiling. Democrats highlight the number of Americans who would lose benefits… -
media mention May 16, 2023 The Texas Tribune: Why Tax Policy Experts Fear the Texas House Plan to Lower Property Taxes Could Have Dire Ripple Effects
Both the House and the Senate’s proposals on property tax cuts would give modest savings to the typical Texas homeowner, but critics say the House plan could create vast inequities… -
media mention May 2, 2023 Arkansas Times: A Decade of Tax Cuts for the Rich (and Pretty Much Nothing for You or Me)
Taxes help pay for the public services that many of us take for granted — most of our state budget goes to funding education and health services that benefit us… -
media mention April 25, 2023 The New York Times: What’s the Matter With New York?
Bashing New York City has long been a popular pastime on the right. Conservatives routinely portray the Big Apple as a dystopian wasteland. And the bashing has reached a fever… -
media mention April 25, 2023 The New Republic: The Future of the Expanded Child Tax Credit Is With the States (for Now)
Congress failed to renew the wildly successful measure, but state lawmakers across the country are working to bring it back. Read more. -
media mention April 25, 2023 The Lever: Joe Manchin’s Tax Hike On The Working Class
Despite representing one of America’s poorest states, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) decided in 2021 to kill legislation to extend expanded child and antipoverty tax credits that were helping the working class. The expiration of… -
media mention April 24, 2023 The Hill: The Racial Wealth Gap Won’t Budge: There’s a Tax for That
The racial wealth gap is one of the most glaring injustices in the U.S. today. Hundreds of years of structural and legal barriers excluded and prevented Black households from being… -
media mention April 14, 2023 The American Prospect: The Taxman Cometh
Last week, with Tax Day right around the corner, the IRS released a highly anticipated strategic operations plan, explaining how the agency intends to operate over the next decade. Flush with… -
media mention April 14, 2023 Nevada Current: ‘The Tourists Pay It’ is a Lousy Excuse for Punishing Nevadans with a Regressive Tax System
What type of business generates the most sales tax revenue in Clark County, home of the Fabulous Las Vegas Strip? If you guessed “food services and drinking places” ding ding… -
media mention April 13, 2023 Arkansas Times: Making Arkansas Worse Again
With the 2023 legislative session blessedly at its end, Arkansas progressives (plus moderates and anyone to the left of the Proud Boys) know what complete and utter political defeat looks… -
media mention April 7, 2023 The Oklahoman: Sen. Kirt: Tax Credits are a Reverse Robin Hood, Robbing Public Schools of Needed Resources
Private school voucher proposals have moved through both the House and Senate over the last few weeks. Now we cannot be sure what final deal may come out of negotiations… -
media mention March 29, 2023 Time: No One Is Talking About What Ron DeSantis Has Actually Done to Florida
Media coverage of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s all-but-announced candidacy for president is already in full frenzy, and so far the script is exactly as his handlers would like it to… -
media mention March 23, 2023 Deseret News: Biden Wants to ‘Tax the Rich.’ Does a Tax Hike Make Sense?
The U.S. had about 720 billionaires at the start of his presidency, President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union speech. “Now we have about 1,000,” he said.… -
media mention March 13, 2023 Kansas Legislators’ War on the Poor Opens Worrisome New Front: School Vouchers and Tax Avoidance
Kansas legislative leaders have declared war on the poor. They have pushed bills penalizing those receiving government assistance through the House Welfare Reform Committee. They have advocated a flat tax plan that benefits… -
media mention March 10, 2023 Vox: Biden’s Plan to Tax the Rich, Explained
Billionaires in the US pay a tiny proportion of the wealth they accrue in taxes compared to the cut ordinary Americans pay from their wages. Now, President Joe Biden wants that to… -
media mention March 10, 2023 MarketWatch: Biden’s Tax Hikes for the Rich are Unlikely to Pass. The Bigger Debate: Trump-era Tax Cuts that End in 2025.
For five years, most Americans have seen lower income-tax rates and tapped a bigger standard deduction, but without congressional action before the end of 2025, the rules could still revert… -
media mention March 9, 2023 Louisiana Illuminator: Private School Tax Credit is a ‘Charitable Facade’ for the Rich, Study Says
A new study found that Louisiana’s private school voucher tax credit is siphoning money from public education and serving as a tax shelter for the wealthy rather than encouraging charitable… -
media mention March 8, 2023 Los Angeles Times: Wall Street Journal Tells Us to Weep for the Plight of the Very, Very Rich
Coverage of the richest Americans in publications aimed at their tax bracket tend to fall into two genres. One is stories claiming that income well into six figures doesn’t make them really… -
media mention March 7, 2023 The Why: Matt Gardner on Corporate Tax Avoidance
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media mention March 7, 2023 CNBC: State Tax Rates Are Not Central to Migration Patterns
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media mention March 7, 2023 Scripps News: How Billionaires and Corporations Avoid Taxes
Across the U.S., some of the nation’s top earners have a toolbox full of mechanisms to build wealth. Read more. -
media mention February 28, 2023 Wall Street Journal: New Jersey Is Latest State to Push Tax Relief Despite Economic Uncertainty
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday will propose another $2 billion in property-tax rebate checks as part of a $53 billion state budget, a state treasury official said, making it the… -
media mention February 27, 2023 New York Times: I.R.S. Decision Not to Tax Certain Payments Carries Fiscal Cost
More than 20 state governments, flush with cash from federal stimulus funds and a rebounding economy, shared their windfalls last year by sending residents one-time payments. This year, the Biden… -
media mention February 24, 2023 Washington Journal: Amy Hanauer on Federal Tax Policy and Revenue Collection