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AP News: Georgia Republicans, Against Backdrop of 2026 Election, Push to Eliminate State Income Tax
August 20, 2025
As the 2026 election looms, Georgia Republicans seeking higher office met Tuesday to begin exploring plans to eliminate the state’s personal income tax.
Barron’s: Social Security Is 90 Years Old. Trump Just Weighed In.
August 15, 2025
President Donald Trump marked Social Security’s 90th birthday on Thursday afternoon, celebrating his administration’s commitment to the program even as it remains in dire need of a fix.
Nonprofit Quarterly: Class Not Dismissed: Mamdani, Nonprofits, and the Fight for Economic Justice
August 14, 2025
In New York City, we can point to the boldface success of Zohran Mamdani as an example. Recently nominated as the Democratic mayoral candidate, his affordability push focuses on creating better options for the working and middle class, such as a network of city-owned grocery stores that reduce the cost of food and affordable housing—all of which led to his big success with the city’s voters. Whatever one makes of his candidacy, it would seem that “the economy, stupid” is still voters’ most pressing concern.
Wall Street Journal: Blue States Hunt for Ways to Wring More Taxes From the Wealthy
August 14, 2025
A growing number of blue cities and states across the country, from Washington state to Rhode Island, are looking at ways to wring more revenue from their richest taxpayers.
CT Mirror: Sales Tax Holidays Under Fire as CT Launches Its Promotion
August 13, 2025
Progressive organizations note that relatively brief exemption periods, usually limited to a week or even just a weekend, deliver extremely modest relief to consumers, often helping poor households the least.
The Sacramento Bee: Why California’s Wealthiest Tax Payers Could Get Less of a Trump Tax Break
August 12, 2025
The rich will get richer from President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill’s tax provisions – but California’s millionaires won’t get as much of a benefit as their counterparts in most other states.
The Guardian: IRS Commissioner’s Removal Reportedly Over Clash on Undocumented Immigrant Data
August 11, 2025
The removal of the Internal Revenue Service commissioner Billy Long after just two months in the post came after the federal tax collection agency said it could not release some information on taxpayers suspected of being in the US illegally, it was reported on Saturday.
CNBC: These States Have Sales Tax Holidays in 2025. Here’s Who Stands to Benefit, Tax Experts Say
August 11, 2025
Every year, a handful of states offer shoppers a temporary tax break to encourage spending. This year, some of those “sales tax holidays” are happening as President Donald Trump’s tariffs threaten to hike prices.
CBS News: Florida’s Month-long School Tax “Holiday” Kicks Off This Week
July 28, 2025
The Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy argues the discount periods have minimal benefit for working families.
Las Vegas Sun: Rep. Susie Lee: One Big Beautiful Bill Is Unfair, Unpopular – And It’s Soon Coming to Las Vegas
July 28, 2025
It is one of the least popular pieces of legislation in modern American history, giving massive, permanent tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and temporary crumbs for working families in Southern Nevada.
The Guardian: CEO Pay Climbs Ahead of Trump Tax Windfall for Wealthy, Says Report
July 24, 2025
“Corporate CEOs are raking in millions, and now they’ll get another kickback from President Trump’s tax cut gift and anti-worker agenda,” said Fred Redmond.
Santa Fe New Mexican: New Mexico’s Tax-Free Holiday Offers Back-to-School Shoppers a Break This Weekend
July 24, 2025
Many observers seem split on whether the state’s annual three-day hiatus on collecting tax on many items provides enough economic benefits to justify its costs.
Boston Globe: Trump’s Attack on In-State Tuition for Dreamers is Bad Law – And Worse Policy
July 22, 2025
The White House continues to revel in its brutal immigration crackdown and to insist that mass raids, deportation without due process, ghastly detention camps, sweeping arrests of people with no criminal record, and expulsion of asylum-seekers and even US citizens are what Americans voted for when they returned President Trump to office. But the public is having serious second thoughts.
PolitiFact: Trump Signs Legislation Introducing Federal Tax Credit for School Choice
July 17, 2025
The new legislation adds a new option for people to support school choice programs, but does not guarantee what Trump describes as "universal school choice."
Fortune: For the First Time in 50 Years, The U.S. Will Likely Experience Negative Net Migration, Shrinking The U.S. Workforce – And Economic Growth by Extension
July 16, 2025
President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport millions of immigrants could likely result in a hit to the U.S. labor force that would shrink the country’s gross domestic product, new data shows.
USA Today: Would Mamdani’s ‘Millionaire Tax’ Chase the Rich Out of New York City?
July 14, 2025
Taxing the rich has worked before. In the World War II era, the wealthiest Americans endured a top tax rate above 90% to buoy the economy. But would it work now?
Rolling Stone: Every Dirty Gift Trump’s Big Bill Gives the Fossil Fuel Industry
July 10, 2025
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” provides billions of dollars in giveaways to the fossil fuel industry and its wealthiest executives while taking a machete to our national effort to confront the climate crisis and build healthier, more sustainable, and more just communities.
Washington Post: Conservatives Are Asking Trump for Another Big Tax Cut
July 10, 2025
Fresh off passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” several conservative organizations and Republican lawmakers are preparing to ask President Donald Trump for another major tax cut – this time, potentially without congressional approval.
NC Newsline: NC Lawmakers Urged to Act as Federal Cuts Threaten State Services
July 10, 2025
A coalition of policy experts and wealthy advocates warned North Carolina lawmakers that recent federal budget cuts could devastate state services, urging action to protect health care, food assistance and other public programs.
The American Prospect: Right-Wing State Tax ‘Revolution’ Rolls On
July 10, 2025
Donald Trump and congressional Republicans aren’t the only ones enacting massive tax cuts that heavily favor the wealthy and big business. Republican state legislators backed by corporate-funded advocacy groups have also made significant strides toward flattening or eliminating once-progressive state income taxes in this year’s legislative sessions.
CNN: Here’s Who Will – And Won’t – Qualify for the New Car Loan Interest Deduction
July 9, 2025
President Donald Trump’s mega tax-and-spending cuts bill, signed into law last week, contains plenty of new tax provisions, the contours of which Americans are still digesting.
Washington Post: Trump’s Tax Law Includes a $40,000 SALT Cap. Here’s Who Qualifies.
July 9, 2025
The new GOP tax law quadruples how much people can deduct in state and local taxes off their federal returns, offering significant relief to high earners in many Democratic-led states by partially undoing a big change in President Donald Trump’s 2017 law.
New York Times: States Brace for Added Burdens of Trump’s Tax and Spending Law
July 7, 2025
The ink is not even dry on the far-reaching domestic policy law that President Trump signed on Friday, and already state governments are bracing for impact as Washington shifts much of the burden for health care, food assistance and other programs onto them.
Washington Post: How Trump’s Big Bill Will Affect You, From Medicaid Cuts to Tax Credits
July 7, 2025
Congress has signed off on a $3.4 trillion legislative package featuring new tax breaks, spending cuts, and more funding for defense and immigration enforcement, delivering President Donald Trump his “big, beautiful bill” despite rumblings from fiscal hawks about the projected $4 trillion it could add to the national debt over the next decade.
Yahoo Finance: Child Tax Credit Gets Small Boost in Trump’s Tax Bill, but Millions of Families Are Left Out
July 7, 2025
The popular child tax credit will receive a slight boost from President Trump’s signature tax and spending bill – but there are caveats.
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