Budget and Tax
Tuesday, August 21, 2007Georgia Should Move to Defined Contribution PensionsFiled As: Budget and Tax, EmploymentOn the editorial page of today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jim Wooten uses his column to expose another pension sweetheart deal and calls for ... more »»
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Monday, August 13, 2007Tax-Eating Chambers of CommerceFiled As: Budget and TaxOne commonly held belief about politics is that business groups oppose the growth of government. The truth is quite the opposite, however. The Oklahoma Council of Public recently published an article by Stephen Moore, who argues that "many chambers of commerce on the state" have become ... more »»
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Monday, August 20, 2007Bridge Failure and Political FailureRush to raise taxes may be pointless Filed As: Budget and Tax, Events, TransportationWhile officials are still looking for the last body presumed to be in the Mississippi River after the collapse of the I-35W bridge, talk in Minnesota is how much--or perhaps whether--the gas tax will be increased. In a special column I wrote for the Minneapolis-based more »»
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Thursday, August 9, 2007The Untold Deficit StoryFiled As: Budget and TaxI’ve just been crunching some numbers from the Congressional Budget Office. Through the first ten months of fiscal year 2007 the Federal budget has a deficit of $158 billion. Looking over the possible revenues and expenses for August and September (the government spends money from October ... more »»
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Thursday, August 9, 2007Part-time Legislator, Full-Time PensionFiled As: Budget and TaxIt's good to be king. It may even be good enough to be a part-time politician. Kentucky's government is $12 billion behind where it should be in funding its pensions. Promises made outstrip current funding. Jim Waters, director of policy and communications for the more »»
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007Ask Less, Pay LessFiled As: Budget and TaxFor various reasons, property taxes get the most public attention out of all taxes. Andrea Neal, an adjunct scholars with the Indiana Policy Review, has plenty of reason to pay attention. Her mortgage company estimated that the taxes on her property ... more »»
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007Putting School Spending on Auto-PilotFiled As: Budget and Tax, Education (k-12)What do you think about putting your state government's largest (or second-largest) expenditure beyond the reach of the elected officials, and into the hands of the permanent bureaucracy? That's the proposal facing Ohio, says the Buckeye Institute. ... more »»
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Monday, July 30, 2007"Healthy Wisconsin" is on Life SupportGov. Doyle keeping his distance Filed As: Budget and Tax, Health CareHealthy Wisconsin is the universal health care plan hatched at the eleventh hour in the Democratic controlled State Senate. Although the proposal is garnering national attention, there is little likelihood it will be enacted this session. Even Democratic more »»
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Monday, July 16, 2007NM's “Roadrunner” Richardson: Not a Fiscal ConservativeFiled As: Budget and Tax, GeneralPaul Gessing, president of New Mexico’s Rio Grand Foundation, asserts Democratic presidential aspirant Bill Richardson hasn’t earned “his stripes as a ‘fiscal conservative’.” Gessing takes the state's governor ... more »»
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007Surprising Tax BurdensFiled As: Budget and TaxWhich states have the highest taxes? You might be surprised. Taxachusetts? Not quite. If you compare states by how large state and local tax collections are as a percentage of personal income, Massachusetts ranks only 32 in the states, though those governments still manage to take over 10 percent ... more »»
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