States
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media mention June 29, 2015 PT Leader: Taxes-Actually, Our State’s Most Unfair of All 50
Washington is not, as we are often led to believe, the cat’s meow when it comes to being liberal and progressive—despite its perceived leading role in a growing movement toward… -
media mention June 29, 2015 Garden City Telegram: Wagle’s ‘Win’: Senate President Exhibits More Disconnect With Reality
An analysis from the nonpartisan Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy showed the wealthiest 1 percent of Kansans set to pay 1.9 percent less in taxes than in 2012, with… -
media mention June 29, 2015 Columbus Dispatch: Gov. Kasich Praises Ohio Budget but Plans to Veto Some Measures
Flanked by two men who were not enamored of some of his highest-profile initiatives, Kasich praised Ohio’s new $71.2 billion, two-year budget as “good stuff” on Friday. The latest analysis… -
media mention June 23, 2015 NJ Today: Lesniak & Greenstein Propose Legislation to End Corporate Welfare
To close a loophole that has allowed multistate corporations to evade their fair share of taxes in New Jersey, Senator Raymond Lesniak and Senator Linda Greenstein today introduced legislation to… -
media mention June 23, 2015 KCUR: Analysis Questions Fairness Of Kansas Tax System
Kansas already had the ninth-most regressive tax system in the nation, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The tax increase signed last week by Gov. Sam Brownback… -
media mention June 22, 2015 Newark Advocate: Tight Budget Deadline Leaves No Time for GOP Feuds
But Senate Republicans did add an extra income tax cut for about 1 million business owners. They wouldn’t have to pay income taxes on their first $250,000 in profits and… -
media mention June 22, 2015 Corvallis Gazette-Times: Driving Change: Oregon Will Start Rolling Out an Experimental Road User Fee Next Month
Both Congress and state legislatures have been reluctant to increase tax rates. Oregon last raised its gas tax in 2011, while the federal gas tax has been unchanged since 1993.… -
media mention June 22, 2015 Vox: Bobby Jindal and Sam Brownback’s Ridiculous Tax Gimmicks, Explained
Brownback has been defiant. “Some would have you believe this bill represents a tax increase, and that is not accurate,” the governor said last week. “When looked at in totality,… -
media mention June 22, 2015 The Atlantic: Where Republicans Went Wrong in Kansas
Ask any fiscal expert, and Kansas’s budget crisis demanded a reckoning—either with its tax code or its longterm spending structure. But its government wasn’t up to it. Aligned with conservatives… -
media mention June 22, 2015 Washington Post: States are Racing to See Who Can Give Rich People a Bigger Tax Break on Their Yachts
It’s true that lower taxes might bring new customers into the market, which would be great for the yacht industry. Yet every dollar spent on new boats is a dollar… -
media mention June 22, 2015 Sun Journal: A North Carolina Tax That is Too Taxing
Republican leaders in the state Senate are betting on sales-tax revenues to keep North Carolina’s government afloat for the next few years. It’s a bad bet for most ordinary Tar… -
media mention June 22, 2015 Toledo Blade: Race to Budget Bottom
The three budget plans are competing to see which can offer the biggest, most unnecessary, and most unfair tax cut. The $71.3 billion budget bill approved this week by the… -
media mention June 19, 2015 Littleton Independent: Momentum Grows for Earned Income Credit
More than one in seven Massachusetts families benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the impact is even greater in many urban communities. The current state Earned Income Tax… -
media mention June 18, 2015 The Topeka Capital-Journal: Gov. Sam Brownback: Tax Package Not a Tax Increase
The Washington-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which is critical of the policy, said according to its analysis the poorest 20 percent of Kansans will pay about $197 more… -
media mention June 18, 2015 Lawrence Journal-World: Brownback Signs Budget; Claims Success in 2015 Session
According to the administration, without the tax bills passed this year, Kansans would pay $1.06 billion less in income and sales taxes than they would have before the 2012 tax… -
media mention June 18, 2015 Inquisitr: Kansas Raises Taxes On The Poor To Pay For Wealthy Tax Cuts
Meg Wiehe from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy told the Washington Post that only the rich have incomes that are growing. “Kansas has really shifted the responsibility for… -
media mention June 18, 2015 St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Kansas Governor Says Deficit Plan is Not a Tax Increase
“Brownback, his top aides and their legislative allies have argued repeatedly that cuts in income tax rates benefited all classes of taxpayers. The governor noted that one provision of this… -
media mention June 18, 2015 KWCH: Brownback Says Tax Plan is Not an Increase, Critics Disagree
“The vast majority of 2.8 million Kansans are doing worse,” Ward said. “They’ve had their taxes increased twice in the last three years.” Ward said the sales tax increases in… -
media mention June 18, 2015 TPM: Brownback: Despite Sales Tax Hike, It’s ‘Not Accurate’ That We’re Raising Taxes
Brownback, his top aides and their legislative allies have argued repeatedly that cuts in income tax rates benefited all classes of taxpayers. The governor noted that one provision of this… -
media mention June 18, 2015 Kansas City Star: Brownback Continues Defense of 2012 Kansas Tax Cuts, Which He Says Exceed 2015 Tax Hikes
Brownback contends that all taxpayers have benefited from the cuts. Critics say that wealthier Kansans gained most directly. And an analysis Tuesday from Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, a… -
media mention June 18, 2015 KWCH: More Kansans May Need Help Due to Higher Sales Tax Costs
Kansans who make the least often pay more of their income on taxes. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy says anyone who make less than $20,000 a year pays… -
media mention June 18, 2015 KWCH: New Tax Law; Who Pays Less, More
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan, left-leaning group based in Washington D.C., ran the numbers and projects the poor will pay more, while the rich will pay… -
media mention June 18, 2015 U.S. News and World Report: Kansas Gov. Brownback Says Sales and Cigarette Tax Rises Are Not Tax Increases
But a new analysis Tuesday from Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan but left-leaning policy group based in Washington, said the cumulative effects of the changes in tax… -
media mention June 17, 2015 Wichita Eagle: Brownback Signs Budget and Tax Bills, Defends Tax Policies
TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback says a plan increasing sales and other taxes does not count as a tax increase because it comes on the heels of income tax cuts… -
report June 17, 2015 Testimony: Adding Sustainability to the Highway Trust Fund
The federal Highway Trust Fund (HTF) is the single most important mechanism for funding maintenance and improvements to the nation’s transportation infrastructure. Absent Congressional action, however, the HTF will face insolvency at the end of July. Unfortunately, despite the critical importance of infrastructure to the U.S. economy, the condition of the HTF has been allowed to deteriorate to the point that imminent insolvency has become entirely normal.