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 The Washington Times: Uneven results with changes to gas tax in Md., Va.
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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.
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media mention August 16, 2013 Yakima Herald Republic: Advocates press economic argument for immigration reform
Echoing a host of recent reports, a coalition of grower and labor interests presented a new study Tuesday that concludes comprehensive immigration reform would create jobs and pump billions of dollars into the state and national economies.
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media mention August 16, 2013 Think Progress: GOP Governor Inadvertently Makes Case For Immigration Reform: We ‘Need To Reach Out To People Who Live In The Shadows’
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Thursday made a strong case for creating a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants — without even knowing that’s what he was doing.
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media mention August 16, 2013 The Patriot-News: Green energy’s unintended consequences: As I See It
The green energy movement — the effort to switch from fossil fuels to cleaner, renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power, but also biofuels such as ethanol-is driven by good intentions … mostly. But it is also riddled with unintended, even ridiculous, consequences that often outweigh the good the movement hopes to achieve.
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media mention August 16, 2013 CT News Junkie: The Important Message of the Sales-Tax Holiday
It’s that time of year again, folks. Not only are my kids gearing up for a much-needed return to school, but sales tax holidays are sprouting up like weeds across the land of the free.
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media mention August 14, 2013 Associated Press: Liu Calls for Legalized Pot in NYC
New York City Comptroller John Liu is proposing a historic overhaul of the city’s marijuana laws, believing that legalizing medical marijuana and allowing adults to possess an ounce of pot for recreational use would pump more than $400 million into the city’s coffers.
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media mention August 14, 2013 Daily Hampshire Gazette: Tax-free weekends are bad economic policy and send wrong message
It troubles me that we marched on to last weekend’s “tax-free holiday” with so little thinking about the folly and hypocrisies of such a “gift” from the Legislature.
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media mention August 14, 2013 Ballard News-Tribune: Tarleton addresses transportation, environment, revenue
“It is absolutelly regressive, in every which way, with any economist,” she said of Washington’s tax system. At the beginning of this year, The Washington D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) released a report crowning Washington state with the most regressive tax system.
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media mention August 14, 2013 The Middletown Press: States could see millions more in tax revenues with immigration reform
Throughout the past year, Connecticut was faced with tough choices in passing its budget, and it was forced to do so with tens of millions of dollars less in tax revenue than the state would have had if its undocumented immigrants had been part of the mainstream population.
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media mention August 12, 2013 The Boston Globe: Tax break is no holiday for Mass.
(Original Post) By Tom Keane | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT AUGUST 06, 2013 THERE ARE certain things our elected officials do that make easy pickings for a columnist, and right… -
media mention August 12, 2013 The Spokesman-Review: Immigration reform good for economy
(Original Post) Benjamin Johnson As Congress takes a summer respite to figure out how to move immigration reform forward in the House, mounting evidence shows reform would be a plus… -
media mention August 12, 2013 The Oregonian: Unions and taxes- A combustible issue with readers
My Wednesday post about the latest tax proposals from Our Oregon — a political group closely associated with the state’s public employee unions — has drawn more comments than almost any other story on Oregonlive.
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media mention August 12, 2013 Minnesota Post: Minnesota growth formula could help Detroit recover
New residents, immigrants and refugees specifically, hold great promise for reviving places like Detroit, battered by de-industrialization or changing economics.
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media mention August 12, 2013 Cape Gazette: Tax expert speaks to advocacy group
(Original Post) Gardner: DuPont pays no state, federal income tax By Kara Nuzback | Aug 07, 2013 Matt Gardner of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy said companies such… -
media mention August 12, 2013 Portland Press Herald: Immigration reform, a boon for all, should be embraced, not feared
(Original Post) By TOM GAWARKIEWICZ Special to the Press Herald AUGUSTA — Historically, immigrants from Canada came to Maine seeking better job opportunities in the mills. Now Canada is the… -
media mention August 9, 2013 Policy Shop: Time to Tax Services, Not Just Sales
It’s no secret that sales taxes are a regressive way to raise revenues. And the heavy reliance on such taxes across the country explains why state tax systems tend to clobber the poor while asking little of the rich.
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media mention August 7, 2013 KHAS TV: Nebraska Tax Committee reviews policy
The Nebraska Tax Committee continued their 6-month review of tax policy Tuesday. Some senators feel the state could be on the verge of major reform.
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media mention August 7, 2013 Journal and Courier (IN): Guest column: Immigration reform more than a map to amnesty
Original Post August 6, 2013 As an Indiana resident, I become more certain every day that immigration reform will benefit our community and our state. As just one sign of… -
media mention August 5, 2013 The Worcester Telegram: Retailers hopeful to cash in on tax-free weekend
Original Post August 5, 2013 By Alli Knothe Retailers are hopeful that the upcoming tax free weekend will be the incentive needed for shoppers to buy new appliances, furniture and… -
media mention August 2, 2013 PBS: State Tax Cuts: Is Arthur Laffer All Wet?
The correlation between states having no income tax and their economic growth is not as direct as Reagan White House economic adviser Arthur Laffer says it is, argues tax economist Joel Slemrod.
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media mention August 2, 2013 Shreveport Times: Sales tax holiday runs Friday, Saturday
A chance to beat the state out of four cents sales tax for two days starts at midnight when the annual fall Sales Tax Holiday begins.
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media mention August 2, 2013 Stateline: MA Joins Sales Tax Holiday Parade
Massachusetts is the 18th state to join the back-to-school tax holiday parade this year. The legislature has authorized a tax-free weekend to begin Aug. 10.