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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Tax reform should aim for greater tax fairness
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) By Jon PeacockOct. 2, 2010 The income gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew wider than ever last year, according to new data from the Census Bureau. That finding strengthens our conviction that the state and federal tax systems should not be tilted in favor of the wealthiest Americans. At […]
Wisconsin Budget Project: Will Recent Changes to Capital Gains Tax Be Rolled Back?
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) Tuesday, January 11, 2011 As policymakers contemplate how to create jobs in Wisconsin and how to finance state services and local aid, they might want to take a look at A Capital Idea: Repealing State Tax Breaks for Capital Gains Would Ease Budget Woes and Improve Tax Fairness, a new report […]
Labor Notes: New Voice in Wisconsin Protests: No Concessions, No Cuts
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) Colette Brown| March 2, 2011 With the largest protests in Wisconsin history unfolding, labor activists are drawing on a new sense of power to reject both their union leaders’ concessions and the massive service cuts the governor proposes. A day after 100,000 people demonstrated in Madison—one of the largest protests in […]
American Prospect: Ryan Visits Racine
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan visits one of the most economically depressed towns in Wisconsin, and residents there let him know what they think of his budget plan. Roger Bybee | April 30, 2011 | House Budget Chair Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, who earlier this month introduced a budget plan that would […]
Lewiston Morning Tribune: Slapped Down
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) LEWISTON MORNING TRIBUNE, IDAHO | Fri, Mar 12, 11:16 AM Mar. 12–CHEERS … to Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire. When Idaho Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter ridiculed the Evergreen State’s refusal to gut every last program in the name of avoiding any and all tax increases, Gregoire slapped him down. With good cause. […]
Olympia Newswire: Tax Relief Without Budget Cuts?- New Report Details How WA Taxpayers Could Save Hundreds of Millions
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) By Trevor Griffey • on April 15, 2010 Washington state taxpayers are paying hundreds of millions more in taxes than they need to, according to a new study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and United for a Fair Economy. The report, “Leaving Money on the Table,” which was […]
The Seattle Times: Initiative 1077 would make state taxes fairer and create opportunity
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) By Bill Gates SrSpecial to The Times THIS year, a typical middle-class family in our state will pay more than 11 percent of its hard-earned income in state and local taxes. Poor families will pay at an even higher rate. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses, already struggling in the current […]
The Seattle Examiner: A fix to Washington’s broken revenue system
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) May 24, 7:42 PM · Russ Lehman – Seattle Public Policy Examiner Examiner 5/24/10 There’s a proposed state initiative out getting signatures right now striving to qualify for the fall ballot. The measure, I-1098, is intended to, as the sponsors say, “make our tax code more fair”. Bill Gates, Sr., the […]
The News Tribune: Ballot measure gives us chance to fix budget for good
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) KATIE BAIRD Last updated: August 15th, 2010 12:02 PM (PDT) Should we be upset that Congress has just promised Washington an extra $526 million? Not I nor, I think, will others whose kids go to our public schools, who use Medicaid for health insurance or have a parent in a nursing […]
The Olympian: Piecemeal tax approach doesn’t go far enough to fix system
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) THE OLYMPIAN Ten years ago Bill Gates Sr., father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Jr., headed an independent commission that recommended an income tax for Washington state. That study has rested on some shelf gathering dust for the last decade. Lawmakers have ignored it in the belief that an income tax […]
McClatchy Washington Bureau: One rich guy who wants to pay higher taxes: Bill Gates Sr.
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) Brad Shannon | Tacoma News Tribune last updated: January 18, 2011 07:24:02 PM Bill Gates Sr., the retired lawyer and wealthy father of the Microsoft co-founder, thinks Washington state’s tax system is out of whack and needs repair. The poor pay too much tax, the rich pay too little, Gates says. […]
KEPR TV: WA Pays Highest Cell Phone Tax in Nation
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) By Chelsea Kopta Story Published: Jan 25, 2011 at 5:46 PM PST PASCO, Wash. — Perhaps nothing is certain in Washington State but taxes and complaining about taxes. Now there’s a new hike to gripe about: your cell phone. Cell phones are the tax man’s latest target. And if you didn’t […]
The Charleston Gazette: N.E. Editorial Roundup
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) November 30, 2009N.E. Editorial Roundup The Associated Press Rutland Herald, Rutland, Vt., Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009: The economic recovery is not occurring as quickly as previously hoped, according to the latest economic reports, which means that when legislators convene in January, the job before them will be daunting. Last week legislators […]
Augusta Free Press: The tax burden on the … who, again?
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) November 18, 2009 by chrisgrahamStory by Chris Graham If you believe the partisan rhetoric, it’s the wealthy who bear the tax burden, and who are deserving of tax breaks to get the economy moving. A new report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and the Virginia Organizing Project puts […]
Richmond Times-Dispatch: States Taxing the Rich: A Very Bad or Good Idea
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) NEAL PEIRCE © WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUPPublished: September 20, 2009 WASHINGTON In a dramatic break from tax trends of recent decades, eight states have voted this year to push up the percentages of income that their wealthiest citizens must pay. Connecticut is the latest to take this step, following Delaware, Hawaii, […]
Vermont Diggers: Truth Squad- Do Dubie’s tax plans help the rich?
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) By Anne Galloway on October 21, 2010 Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie, Vermont‘s Republican candidate for governor, has said reducing taxes is his No. 1 priority. To do that, Dubie has proposed capping state spending at 2 percent – after he reduces next year‘s budget by $112 million. Once the caps are […]
Rutland Herald: Tax inequities
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) The economic recovery is not occurring as quickly as previously hoped, according to the latest economic reports, which means that when legislators convene in January, the job before them will be daunting. Last week legislators acknowledged that state government faces an $88 million deficit in the coming budget cycle, even without […]
Vermont Business Magazine: Bush tax cuts present budget-balancing option
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) Wed Feb 9 2011 Author:Paul Cillo The extension of the Bush tax cuts passed recently by Congress gives Governor Shumlin and the Legislature another option for balancing the state budget in fiscal 2012 and 2013. A new analysis shows that the top 5 percent of Vermont taxpayers will save $190 million […]
VT Digger: Tax reform, Part 1: Where policy meets politics
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) Posted By Anne Galloway On February 3, 2011 @ 1:39 am In Public Policy | 12 Editor’s note: This is the first in a five-part series about the Vermont Blue Ribbon Tax Structure Commission Report. In addition to this analysis of the politics of taxation, in the coming week, VTDigger.org will […]
Deseret News: Current cuts won’t get Utah through 2011
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) Down-to-the-bone look at taxes called a necessityBy James Thalman Deseret NewsPublished: Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 4:39 p.m. MST Cutbacks in agency budgets have so far helped Utah handle a tax-revenue pinch, but they won’t do much to get through the blockage awaiting in 2011, local and national budget-policy analysts say. A […]
Salt Lake City Weekly: 9 Reasons the Rich Get Richer
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) A tax expert’s story on tax myths may not be sexy, but it could arouse you—and not in a good way. By David Cay Johnston Posted // April 13,2011 – For three decades, we have conducted a massive economic experiment, testing a theory known as supply-side economics. The theory goes like […]
Dallas Morning News: Report: Poor Texans shoulder heavy tax burden
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) 07:44 AM CST on Thursday, November 19, 2009 By ROBERT T. GARRETT / The Dallas Morning [email protected] AUSTIN – Texas’ low-income residents bear heavier tax burdens than their counterparts in all but four other states, a new study shows. The bottom fifth of Texas earners pay just over 12 percent of […]
Politifact: Paul Krugman says poorest 40 percent of Texans pay more in Texas than national average
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) Paul Krugman on Monday, February 28th, 2011 in an op-ed column. Paul Krugman says poorest 40 percent of Texans pay more in Texas than national average New York Times columnist Paul Krugman sees Texas as a model for how things might be going wrong across the nation and in his latest […]
Lubbock Avalanche Journal: Letter: Tax analysis shows poor pay disproportionately
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) Posted: May 4, 2011 – 12:12am State and local legislators should read the 2009 report titled, “Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States.” The report, by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington, D.C., non-profit, non-partisan research group is the result of a […]
The Commercial Appeal: A terrible decision
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) By Staff Reports Friday, November 20, 2009 Tennessee lawmakers who controlled the debate over state tax reform in 2002 can proudly point to Tennessee’s No. 3 ranking on the list of states with the lowest state and local taxes. Per person, Tennesseans paid an average of $3,005 in 2007, according to […]
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