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media mention October 9, 2013 The Hill: Paying the price for 20 years of duct-taping our infrastructure
(Original Post) By Terry O’Sullivan – 10/08/13 05:32 PM ET With much of the focus on the government shutdown and its potential impact on the economy, a critical cost of… -
media mention October 7, 2013 Politico: The Gas Tax’s Silver Anniversary Present
Original Post September 25, 2013 by Kevin Robillard Morning Transportation THE GAS TAX’S SILVER ANNIVERSARY PRESENT: One week before the 20th anniversary of the gas tax being set at 18.3… -
media mention October 3, 2013 Real Change: Study finds Washington’s tax system is the nation’s most regressive
(Original Post) October 2, 2013 Vol: 20 No: 40 by: Aaron Burkhalter , Staff Reporter Washington’s poorest people pay the highest taxes in the entire country. According to… -
media mention October 1, 2013 Green Car Reports: Gas Tax Unchanged For 20 Years Today; Road Costs, However…
(Original Post) BY Stephen Edelstein Oct 1, 2013 Taxes on gasoline and diesel make up 85 percent of the revenue flowing into the United States’ transportation spending account, but that… -
media mention October 1, 2013 National Journal: Happy 20th, Gas Tax!
(Original Post) By Fawn Johnson September 30, 2013 On Oct. 1, the 18.4 cent-per-gallon federal gas tax is 20 years old. And it is likely to remain at that level… -
media mention September 30, 2013 Governing: Is Earmarking the Best Way to Fund Projects?
(Original Post) It’s not black and white, but understanding the pros and cons increases your chances of coming to the right answer for a particular project. BY: KATHERINE BARRETT &… -
media mention September 26, 2013 The Atlantic: We Could Fix America’s Highways If Every Driver Kicked In an Extra $4.66 Per Month
(Original Post) ERIC JAFFESEP 25, 2013 Don’t let the instinctive uproar over high gas costs fool you: Americans should be paying more to drive. But “more” is a vague and… -
media mention September 24, 2013 PR Newswire: Congress, Not Fuel-Efficient Cars, to Blame for Transportation Funding Shortfall
(Original Post) Sept. 24, 2013, 8:15 a.m. EDT WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — New ITEP Report Shows Obsolete Gas Tax Has Cost $215 Billion, Undermined Infrastructure and… -
media mention September 24, 2013 The Fiscal Times: You Won’t Believe Which State Taxes Its Poor the Most
(Original Post) BETH BRAVERMAN The Fiscal Times September 23, 2013 Washington State may have one of the lowest overall tax burdens in the country, but its poorest citizens pay more… -
media mention September 23, 2013 Washington Post: The state that taxes the poor the most is… a blue one
(Original Post) By Niraj Chokshi, Published: September 21 at 10:00 am The state that easily handed President Obama a victory last November while passing voter-approved referendums legalizing same-sex marriage and… -
media mention September 23, 2013 Media Matters: Conservative Media’s Misplaced Hysteria Over Immigrants And Welfare
(Original Post) Blog ››› September 18, 2013 6:04 PM EDT ››› SOLANGE UWIMANA Right-wing media have seized on a report noting that American children in Los Angeles County with undocumented… -
media mention September 18, 2013 The Shorthorn: I want to disrupt what you think
(Original Post) Posted: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:45 am | Updated: 1:50 am, Wed Sep 18, 2013. Lindsey Juarez The Shorthorn staff teenage boy rode his bicycle to the DMV… -
media mention September 16, 2013 News & Observer: America’s growing income divide
By Ned Barnett The downtown lot where Raleigh’s Occupy movement once camped is now empty. The fast-food workers who picketted over being paid the meager minimum wage of $7.25… -
media mention September 11, 2013 Twin Cities Daily Planet: New reports underscore growing wage and income disparities
(Original Post) By Jeff Van Wychen, Minnesota 2020 September 09, 2013 Two recent reports—the first from the Minnesota Budget Project and the second from Growth & Justice—underscore different aspects of… -
media mention September 9, 2013 Columbia Journalism Review: Invasion of the Job Snatcher
(Original Post) As the Missouri media takes up arms against Rick Perry, some facts and context get lost in the fray By Deron Lee FAIRWAY, KS — Texas and Missouri… -
media mention September 9, 2013 Memphis Commercial Appeal: Op-Ed: What FedEx Can Teach Us About Tax Reform
What FedEx Can Teach Us About Tax Reform September 8, 2013 Original Post by Matt Gardner, Executive Director, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy Democratic Senator Max Baucus and Republican… -
media mention August 28, 2013 Card Hub: Should Uncle Sam Take a Toke to Fill His Coffers?
(Original Post) by John Kiernan on August 27, 2013 When in doubt, look to the founding fathers. That’s what we do in this country, isn’t it? We reference the… -
media mention August 26, 2013 The Joplin Globe: Sloppy attempt would lead Missourians into dark hole
(Original Post) August 26, 2013 By Elliott Denniston Special to The Globe WEBB CITY, Mo. — Republican legislators and a handful of self-interested groups are campaigning to override Gov. Jay… -
media mention August 23, 2013 Huron County View: Immigration reform would boost revenue by $35 million
(Original Post) WASHINGTON — A new analysis estimates that unauthorized immigrants pay Michigan $126 million in state, local taxes. The study also estimates that Michigan would gain $35 million in… -
media mention August 21, 2013 Fox & Hounds: Immigration Reformers Must Tell a Better Story
(Original Post) By Joe Rodota CEO and founder of Forward Observer, a research and strategy firm Monday, August 19th, 2013 In a recent column, Washington Post Wonkblog writers Ezra… -
media mention August 21, 2013 US News & World Report: Immigration Reform Could Boost U.S. Economy
(Original Post) Study shows immigration bill would create 14,000 jobs in each congressional district By LAUREN FOX August 20, 2013 Opponents to immigration reform have called the Senate’s bipartisan and… -
media mention August 21, 2013 The Washington Times: Uneven results with changes to gas tax in Md., Va.
An 18-cent disparity in the cost of a gallon of gas between Maryland and Virginia appears to support predictions of radical price changes after lawmakers in both states took widely different approaches to raising transportation funding through gas taxes this year.
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media mention August 21, 2013 Southtown Star: What’s at stake for Illinois in immigration reform?
For instance, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently estimated that the immigration reform bill that passed the Senate in June would reduce the federal budget deficit by roughly $1 trillion over 20 years and would boost the U.S. economy as a whole without negatively affecting U.S. workers in the long run.
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media mention August 21, 2013 The Daily Camera: What’s at stake for Colorado in immigration reform?
As Congress takes a summer respite to figure out how to move immigration reform forward in the House, mounting evidence shows that reform would be a plus to the national economy. For instance, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently estimated that the immigration reform bill which passed the Senate in June (S. 744) would reduce the federal deficit by roughly $1 trillion over 20 years and would boost the U.S. economy as a whole without negatively affecting U.S. workers in the long run. In addition, an April report from the conservative American Action Forum, authored by a former director of the CBO, went further, estimating that immigration reform has the potential to decrease the cumulative federal deficit by more than $2.5 trillion over the course of just 10 years.
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media mention August 21, 2013 Portsmouth Daily Time: To the Ohio House of Representatives, Tax Reform Study Committee
A study by the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress found in the 1970s that state taxes were one of the least driving factors in business location decisions, in part because state taxes could be written off on Federal taxes. Quality of life factors were seen as far more important. The Tax Foundation, set up in the 1930s to combat rising taxes under the New Deal, estimated in a 2006 study of businesses in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific that taxes accounted for 7 to 13 percent of business cost in manufacturing, and just 3 to 7 percent in non-manufacturing. An earlier study, 1998, at Northwestern University, had found that in U.S. manufacturing, state and local taxes constituted 3 to 5 percent of operating costs, while in service industries they were 4 to 6 percent.