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MSNBC: Doing the Math- How Much Prop. 30 Costs You
December 17, 2012
By SAM BROCK NBCBayArea.com updated 11/9/2012 9:18:16 AM ET California legislators are breathing a little easier now that voters surprisingly, and through a solid majority, approved the governor’s tax hike, Prop. 30. The new law will raise billions of dollars a year for most of the next decade to stem the state’s budget shortfall and […]
The Badger Herald: Obama must start prioritizing poverty
December 17, 2012
By Aaron LoudenslagerTuesday, November 13, 2012 1:00 a.m.Updated Tuesday, November 13, 2012 1:12:40 a.m. President Barack Obama was re-elected with a resounding victory over former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., in which he earned a total of 332 Electoral College votes. This victory demonstrates the American people have rejected the laissez-faire economic policies Romney advocated for […]
The Hays Daily News: Childhood poverty
December 17, 2012
Published on -11/25/2012, 9:37 AM Kansas First Lady Mary Brownback has accepted a difficult responsibility. As unofficial adviser to a task force studying ways to reduce childhood poverty in the state, she might be required eventually to deliver bad news to her husband. It all depends on how seriously the governor-appointed panel accepts its task. […]
Orange County Register: Why state tax increases are reasonable
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Published: Nov. 26, 2012 Updated: 6:18 p.m. By HAO-NHIEN VU / Journalist, blogger and math teacher Proposition 30’s passage is not just about education, but it heralds in a new age of more thoughtfulness on taxes. California voters show they do not have a knee-jerk reaction that all taxes are bad, and are […]
The Street: AT&T, Verizon Face Tax Windfall Lapsing
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) NEW YORK (TheStreet) — As telecom giants AT&T (T_) and Verizon (VZ_) finish multi-billion dollar network upgrades in the fight for new Apple (AAPL_) iPhone and Google (GOOG_)-Android subscribers, they’ve quietly seen a giant income tax windfall. Now, Craig Moffet of Bernstein Research, the telecom sector’s most consistently bearish analyst, says the tax […]
Washington Post: The teetotalers’ solution to the austerity crisis
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Posted by Dylan Matthews on December 3, 2012 at 1:49 pm It’s basically a given at this point that any austerity crisis deal will involve new sources of revenue, be it in the form of higher rates for top earners, pared back tax expenditures, or a new tax altogether. Speculation around the third […]
The Atlantic: Will We Finally See an Increase to State and Federal Gas Taxes?
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Eric Jaffe11:07 AM ET The idea of raising the gas tax, which pays for road and transit projects across the country, has been been a political poison at every level of government, across both parties, for many years now. The federal gas tax has been locked at 18.4 cents per gallon since 1993, […]
New York Times: Tax Arithmetic Shows Top Rate Is Just a Starter
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By JACKIE CALMESPublished: December 8, 2012 WASHINGTON — Despite hints in recent days that President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner might compromise on the tax rate to be paid by top earners, a host of other knotty tax questions could still derail a deal to avert a fiscal crisis in January. […]
The Huffington Post: Business Roundtable Fiscal Cliff Proposal Bargains For Concessions On Corporate Rates
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Ben Hallman Posted: 12/12/2012 7:26 pm EST After spending months opposing tax increases for the wealthiest Americans, the Business Roundtable, an influential corporate lobbying group, this week relented, accepting higher rates for the affluent in the name of averting the fiscal cliff. “We’re advocating for everybody to give a little,” said Jim McNerney, […]
Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan: A Widening Divide
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By Nathan [email protected]: Saturday, December 1, 2012 12:58 AM CSTDoes it matter that income inequality is increasing in South Dakota? A report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Economic Policy Institute found that, between the late 1990s to the mid-2000s, the drop in income among the bottom 20 percent of […]
Indiana Economic Digest: Pence tax cut would mostly benefit the rich
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) 12/17/2012 12:27:00 AM Dan Carden, Times of Northwest Indiana INDIANAPOLIS | Republican Gov.-elect Mike Pence is standing by his proposal to cut Indiana’s income tax rate, despite a nonpartisan study showing most taxpayers would get back less than $100 and a new poll showing most Hoosiers oppose Pence’s plan. “I’m determined to keep […]
The News Tribune: Lawmakers should tread carefully with tax breaks
December 12, 2012
Democratic lawmakers are beginning to roll out ideas for raising taxes in order to increase education funding. The state Supreme Court says substantial increases are required to meet the constitution-al imperative “to make ample provision” for public education. Many think $2 billion would be the appropriate down payment. There are no guarantees. RICHARD S. DAVIS; […]
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