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Campus Progress: Is Your City Miserable? Ask Forbes
February 28, 2013
(Original Post) Posted Thursday, February 28, 2013 in Opinions by Chris Lewis Forbes Magazine’s annual list of “America’s Most Miserable Cities” is out, measuring the (lack of) wellbeing in America’s 200 largest metro areas. The Forbes list is a close cousin to quality-of-life research—a growing, interdisciplinary body of economic inquiry that recognizes human happiness is […]
The Fiscal Times: State Income Taxes- One Piece of a Complex Revenue Pie
February 25, 2013
(Original Post) By BRUCE BARTLETT, The Fiscal TimesFebruary 22, 2013 State taxes are once again making headlines. When California recently raised its top income tax rate to 13.3 percent, pro golfer Phil Mickelson threatened to leave the state for the no-income tax world of sunny Florida. Republicans in several states are pushing to abolish their […]
New York Times: The Alluring Myth of the Tax-Fleeing Millionaire
February 15, 2013
(Original Post) By JAMES B. STEWARTPublished: February 15, 2013 Last month, Vladimir V. Putin hugged his newly minted fellow Russian citizen, the actor Gerard Depardieu, posing for cameras at the Black Sea port of Sochi. “I adore your country,” Mr. Depardieu gushed — especially its 13 percent flat tax on personal income. Sochi may not […]
The Philadelphia Post: When it Comes to Taxes in Pennsylvania, It’s Good to be Rich
January 31, 2013
(Original Post) When everybody comes out to vote, (i.e. presidential elections) Pennsylvania’s a blue state. And at least in certain pockets, it behaves much like the northeastern liberal states the surround it, like New Jersey, Maryland, and New York. When it comes to taxation, however, it looks a lot more like Texas or Alabama. According […]
Chicago Magazine: Illinois- The Fourth Most Regressive Taxes in America
January 30, 2013
(Original Post) Posted today at 11:21 a.m.By Whet Moser One of the ongoing complaints about Illinois’s tax system—besides general complaints about it being too high for everything—is its prairie flatness, which is unusual among states. One complaint is that it hits low-income taxpayers hardest (Naomi Jakobsson, D-Urbana, has proposed a graduated tax); the other is […]
Philadelphia City Paper: Top 1 percent don’t pay in PA
January 30, 2013
POSTED: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 10:39 AM Follow on Twitter @DanielDenvir Pennsylvania is one of the “Terrible Ten” states with the most regressive tax structures nationwide, hitting the poor hardest while taking the least from the rich, according to a new report from the liberal Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (PBPC) and the Institute on […]
The Hill: State tax systems regressive
January 30, 2013
(Original Post) By Bernie Becker – 01/30/13 07:02 AM ET Practically every state charges a higher share of taxes from lower- and middle-class families than the highest earners, a new study from a liberal-leaning group found. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that the bottom 20 percent of earners paid an effective tax […]
New York Times: Makers, Takers, Fakers
January 28, 2013
(Original Post) By PAUL KRUGMANPublished: January 27, 2013 Republicans have a problem. For years they could shout down any attempt to point out the extent to which their policies favored the elite over the poor and the middle class; all they had to do was yell “Class warfare!” and Democrats scurried away. In the 2012 […]
The American Prospect: Sam Brownback’s Kansas is a Resort Town for “Makers”
January 28, 2013
(Original Post) Jamelle Bouie January 24, 2013 Over the last two years, Governor Brownback has transformed the state in a laboratory for ultraconservative policies. Much like Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, Governor Sam Brownback is busy turning Kansas into a right-wing paradise, with low wages, few public services, and reactionary social policy. Since 2010, when conservative […]
New York Times: Kansas’ Governor and G.O.P. Seek to End Income Tax
January 25, 2013
(Original Post) By JOHN ELIGONPublished: January 23, 2013 TOPEKA, Kan. — President Obama stood on the steps of the Capitol in Washington on Monday afternoon and laid out an expansive liberal agenda for the nation. Inside the Kansas State Capitol here this week, Gov. Sam Brownback and Republican legislators have been drafting what could be […]
Politico: Ambitious governors dominate tax debate
January 23, 2013
(Original Post) By: Rachael BadeJanuary 22, 2013 04:41 PM EST Looking for the next big tax debate? Talk to a governor — preferably one with presidential ambitions. From Louisiana to New York, and Wisconsin to Massachusetts, some of the nation’s most prominent governors in both parties — more than a few of whom have grander […]
Bloomberg: New Orleans Mayor Says Congress Should Back Obama, NRA on Police
January 18, 2013
By Jonathan D. Salant on January 18, 2013 Congress should seize on a rare area of agreement between President Barack Obama and the National Rifle Association in the gun-violence debate and provide funds to hire more police officers, the mayor of New Orleans said. “If Congress can do anything, it can do the thing that […]
Roth & Company: How progressive can state taxes be?
January 17, 2013
(Original Post) November 19th, 2009 by Joe Kristan The Iowa Fiscal Partnership has generated some headlines by passing around their take on a new study by The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: Study says Iowa tax system unfair to poor Report: Iowa tax code favors wealthiest residents Report: Iowa tax system hurts low and […]
Fiscal Policy Institute: Back on Track: Why Progressive Tax Reform Is an Essential Part of New York’s Budget Solution
January 14, 2013 • By ITEP Staff
New York faces one of the largest budget deficits in the country for the coming year at $14.2 billion. The State’s 2009-10 fiscal year begins April 1, 2009. Two responses to addressing the crisis have dominated the policy debate. While both acknowledge the detrimental impact Wall Street revenue declines have had on the State’s fiscal […]
Fiscal Policy Institute: The Tax Shift
January 8, 2013 • By ITEP Staff
New York State is at a crossroads. Our tax structure is scheduled to change in a way that will render state revenues inadequate for the budget years ahead. Hundreds of thousands of households struggle to pay property tax bills that represent an inordinate share of their incomes. And, in the aftermath of the Great Recession, […]
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Wisconsin’s tax burden gets lighter but not for all
January 8, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) By Dave Umhoefer of the Journal SentinelPosted: April 12, 2010 | At the end of last year, one Midwestern state emerged carrying its lightest total tax burden since the early 1960s. Only six states nationwide saw a bigger drop in the percentage of taxpayer income taken for government spending over an […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Williston Observer: Taxes and the wisdom of our forebears
January 7, 2013
(PDF of Original Post) July 16, 2009 BY BRIAN MILLER One hundred years ago, on July 17, 1909, Sen. William E. Borah, R-Idaho wrote the words, “The income tax is the fairest and most equitable of the taxes. It is the one tax which approaches us in the hour of prosperity and departs in the […]
LPIB: Tanzi bill would close corporate tax loophole
January 7, 2013
(PDF of the Original Post) STATE HOUSE – Rep. Teresa Tanzi is pushing for legislation that would close a loophole that large, multi-state and international corporations use to avoid paying state taxes. Representative Tanzi (D-Dist. 34, South Kingstown, Narragansett) is sponsoring legislation (2011-H 5738) that would enact combined reporting. One of the tricks many multi-state […]
Narragansett Patch: Tanzi- Bill Proposed to Close Corporate Tax Loophole
January 7, 2013
(PDF of the Original Post) Rep. Teresa Tanzi has proposed a bill that would close the state’s corporate tax loophole. June 2, 2011 STATE HOUSE – Rep. Teresa Tanzi is pushing for legislation that would close a loophole that large, multi-state and international corporations use to avoid paying state taxes. Representative Tanzi (D-Dist. 34, South […]
PA Independent: How Pennsylvania’s budget deficit could be worse
January 7, 2013
(PDF of the Original Post) April 1, 2011 Flat income tax may have cushioned recession’s blow By Eric Boehm | PA Independent HARRISBURG — One of only seven states with a flat personal income tax system may have spared Pennsylvania from some of the pain of the recent economic downturn. It may be hard to […]
Real Clear Politics: Mystery of the Missing Millionaires
January 7, 2013
(PDF of the Original Post) By Froma Harrop A daffy Wall Street Journal editorial about the “vanishing millionaires” of Oregon lit a spark in a fairly humorless week. It offers the usual boilerplate about the rich fleeing to tax-friendlier provinces because their state raised taxes, but this time with a great visual: “One-quarter of the […]
