Florida
Post-Star (NY): Commentary: Anti-tax Governors just getting started
December 21, 2012
Original Post By Matthew Gardner, Executive Director Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy July 28, 2011 Twelve new governors who ran on anti-tax platforms have now signed their first fiscal year budgets. All of them will tell you they were elected with a mandate to get their state’s fiscal house in order, rein in government […]
La Crosse Tribune: Matthew Gardner: Anti-tax govs just getting started
December 21, 2012
Original Post July 31, 2011 COMMENTARY Twelve new governors who ran on anti-tax platforms have now signed their first fiscal year budgets. All of them will tell you they were elected with a mandate to get their state’s fiscal house in order, rein in government spending and cut taxes. Some of them will even tell […]
Baltimore CityBizList: Tax Flight Debate Is One-Sided, Professor Says
December 21, 2012
by Len Lazarick August 12, 2011 Professor Roy Meyers, the government budgeting expert at UMBC, says the focus of our ongoing stories and comment strings “on the flight/plight of the millionaires is a bit one-sided.” Meyers is afraid that the discussion of Maryland’s tax structure will go down the sorry path of the national debate, […]
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Effort to kill Missouri income tax has begun in earnest
December 21, 2012
Original Post September 26, 2011 by Virginia Young JEFFERSON CITY • Wrestling with your state income tax return? Missouri legislators are weighing a plan that would do away with that chore. But before you celebrate, be aware that it’s not a tax cut. While state individual and corporate income taxes would be eliminated, the lost […]
Fox 4 TV News Kansas City: Will Kansas Eliminate Income Tax?
December 21, 2012
October 25, 2011 by John Pepitone and Christie Walton A new group wants Kansas to join nine other states that don’t have an individual income tax. Supporters claim states like Texas, Tennessee and Florida are growing faster and creating new jobs because they don’t have an income tax. A proposal to eliminate the state […]
Sun Sentinel: You paid more in taxes than FPL and other companies
December 19, 2012
(Original Post) By Julie Patel November 4, 2011 12:40 PM Thirty companies, including the parent company of Florida Power & Light, legally paid less than zero in federal income taxes in recent years, according to a report this month by the Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The two […]
Palm Beach Post: Rooney right to call and raise: Joins just two others in House delegation to reject ideology
December 19, 2012
By The Palm Beach Post Posted: 7:23 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 Dysfunction in Washington is so severe that stating the obvious counts as an act of courage. Three members of Florida’s U.S. House delegation stated the obvious last week when they signed a letter agreeing that for the debt-reduction committee to succeed, “all options […]
Orlando Sentinel: Central Florida companies don’t pay fair share of state income taxes, report says
December 19, 2012
(Original Post) By Sandra Pedicini, Orlando Sentinel 4:54 p.m. EST, December 7, 2011 Three Central Florida companies were named in a national report released Wednesday that contends many corporations pay too little in state income tax. Darden Restaurants, Publix and Harris Corp. are “paying substantially less than what the tax rate would suggest they should […]
The Ledger: Publix Underpays Taxes
December 19, 2012
(Original Post) By Kyle Kennedy THE LEDGER Published: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 11:13 p.m.Last Modified: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 11:13 p.m. LAKELAND | A report says Publix Super Markets Inc. and seven other large Florida-based companies are among 265 “consistently profitable” firms that underpay corporate taxes owed to states.Facts Three think tanks, including […]
Clarion Ledger: Corporations already evading Miss. state income tax
December 19, 2012
5:51 PM, Dec. 15, 2011 Written by Bill Minor Among the outlandish bills sponsored by Republican lawmakers I had mentioned a couple of weeks ago was one that would have repealed (yes, repealed) the state income tax on corporations. It didn’t pass. Now don’t be surprised if the bill resurfaces when the GOP takes over […]
The American Independent: Arthur Laffer’s dynamic roadshow
December 18, 2012
(Original Post) Siddhartha Mahanta | 12.18.12 | 1:24 pm | Republishposted in Economy/Finance | Government Accountability/Reform | Politics On January 19 of this year, Kansas state Sen. Julia Lynn offered an exuberant greeting to renowned tax-cutting enthusiast Arthur Laffer. “What an honor and privilege to have you here in Kansas,” Lynn said, welcoming the fabled […]
Chicago Tribune: The case for a graduated income tax in Illinois
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Tuesday, February 28, 2012 If Illinois were to adopt the same graduated income tax rate structure as Iowa, Illinois would raise $6.3 billion more in revenue than it does from its current five percent flat rate, while 54 percent—over half—of all taxpayers would pay less in state income taxes…from The Case for Creating […]
Cincinnati Enquirer: Will lower income tax bring jobs to Ohio?
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Kasich thinks so, but our taxes aren’t really so high8:02 AM, Mar. 22, 2012 Written by Paul E. Kostyu COLUMBUS — Lower Ohio’s burdensome personal income taxes. Create jobs. That’s what Gov. John Kasich proposed last week in an expansive plan to reform government and improve the state’s economy. Kasich said Ohio’s income […]
Orlando Sentinel: Shamu the shrewd? SeaWorld sees record earnings – and no income tax
December 17, 2012
(Originial Post) 5:56 p.m. EST, April 4, 2012| By Jason Garcia, Orlando Sentinel SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment had a banner year in 2011. Attendance and guest spending rose across its U.S. theme parks. Earnings set a company record. But SeaWorld won’t have to pay a dime in federal income tax. It will not have to […]
The Orlando Sentinel: SeaWorld an example of why people want tax laws changed
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By Jason Garcia — The Orlando Sentinel Posted: 12:00am on Apr 9, 2012; Modified: 1:38am on Apr 9, 2012 ORLANDO, Fla. — SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment had a banner year in 2011. Attendance and guest spending rose across its United States theme parks. Earnings set a company record. But SeaWorld won’t have to […]
Tulsa World: Anti-tax group’s flawed ‘research’
December 17, 2012
LYNNE SHAW Published: 4/11/2012 2:24 AM Last Modified: 4/11/2012 3:53 AM What is the difference between serious statistical research and statistical manipulation? The foundation for all of the Oklahoma personal income tax proposals is one “study” done by the commercial and biased group of Arduin, Laffer and Moore Econometrics (ALME). Its work was published by […]
Great Falls Tribune: Montana lawmakers split with Buffett Rule coming to head
December 17, 2012
5:11 AM, Apr. 15, 2012 | WASHINGTON — Should millionaires be required to pay higher taxes? Montana’s U.S. lawmakers are split over the issue, which is expected to be front and center in Washington, D.C., this week. At issue is a concept pushed by President Barack Obama and other Democrats, called the Buffett Rule. Named […]
The Huffington Post: Time for a 99 Percent Tax Revolt
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Elizabeth ParisianPolicy analyst, Stand Up! Chicago With Tax Day tomorrow, it seems like the subject of taxes — tax policy, tax fairness, tax reform — is on everyone’s minds. On Tuesday, President Obama gave a speech in Florida in support of the Buffet Rule, in what is likely a move to make tax […]
Southtown Star: Should supermarkets solicit charitable donations?
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By David McGrath May 18, 2012 10:22PM Tell me you haven’t been there. You’ve filled your grocery cart, are feeling pretty good about many of your purchases being on sale and you have a stack of coupons for discounts on several other items. At checkout, the cashier is friendly, even remarking on all […]
Truthout: States to Residents- Forget Promises to Restore School Funding
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Saturday, 09 June 2012 11:12 By Mike Alberti, Remapping Debate | News Analysis When Wichita Public Schools Superintendent John Allison learned that, thanks to rising revenues, Kansas was projected to have a budget surplus of more than $300 million at the end of the year – the state’s first surplus since the recession […]
Bloomberg: States Lacking Income Tax Get No Boost in Growth
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By Brian Chappatta on June 25, 2012 Governors seeking to expand their economies by eliminating income taxes find little support for the idea in the record of U.S. states that lack such a levy. The BGOV Barometer shows the nine states with the highest personal income taxes on residents outperformed or kept pace […]
Think Progress: Having No Income Tax Gives States No Economic Boost
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) By Pat Garofalo on Jun 26, 2012 at 10:30 am According to a report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, states without an income tax received no discernible boost in growth over the last decade compared to states with relatively high income taxes. Lacking an income tax provided no boost to […]
NPR’s State Impact: Recent Study Questions “New Hampshire Advantage”
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) June 29, 2012 | 11:23 AMBy Emily Corwin A couple of weeks ago, Arthur Laffer — an economist made famous for his work in the Reagan administration — co-wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal warning that the expiration of federal tax cuts in January puts the country on the verge […]
Capital Gazette: Marylanders have a lot riding on tax policy
December 17, 2012
Posted: Friday, July 13, 2012 10:30 am | Updated: 1:25 pm, Fri Jul 13, 2012. In an interesting article this week, The New York Times used Maryland’s Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley and Sam Brownback, the Republican governor of Kansas, as examples of the contrasting Democratic and Republican approaches to state spending, now that revenue is […]
The Nation: ‘We Can’t Afford It’: The Big Lie About Medicaid Expansion
December 17, 2012
(Original Post) Richard Kim on July 20, 2012 – 10:47 AM ET In his letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejecting the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, Texas Governor Rick Perry tells a whopper. Expanding Medicaid, he writes, would “threaten even Texas with financial ruin.” Texas has the highest […]
