The Advocate: Legislature ‘running out of time’ to prevent devastating budget cuts; sales tax key issue
media mention“The House killed a proposal to eliminate 50 percent of the deduction that individual taxpayers get when they itemize deductions on their federal tax returns. The vote on House Bill 33 by Leger was 44-58. The top 15 percent of taxpayers would have paid 76 percent of the higher taxes, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.”