Budget and Tax
Monday, May 5, 2008Voting With Their ... TiresBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Budget and TaxA fundamental insight of economics is that people respond to incentives. One of those incentives, though certainly not the only one, is the price of a product. The price is in turn affected by a variety of factors, including the sales tax levied by governments. Maine has a sales tax. Its ... more »»
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Friday, May 2, 2008Wisconsin Poised to Punt their Budget DeficitFiled As: Budget and TaxDue to a slumping economy and virtually no rainy day fund on which to draw, Wisconsin legislators have been struggling to fill in a $527 million general fund budget deficit. Rather than using the shortfall as an opportunity to make changes to avoid future revenue and spending problems, Governor Doyle ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008Cutting the Budget GapBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Budget and TaxWith many states on track to spend more than they're taking in, the work of state-focused groups to find ways of making government smarter and smaller are more needed than ever. The latest example comes from Maine, ... more »»
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Monday, April 28, 2008If Taxpayers Build a Theater and Nobody Books It ....By John LaPlanteFiled As: Budget and TaxCharles J. Sykes writes about an edifice complex that has built an expensive--and largely unused--theater in Milwaukee. "From the beginning, critics sniped that spending $42 million in taxpayer ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008Making Up Medicaid CutsBy Linda GormanFiled As: Budget and Tax, Health CareIf Families USA were a newspaper, it would be a supermarket tabloid carrying articles about alien abductions. Its latest campaign is a series of press releases screaming that states will lose thousands of jobs and zillions of dollars due to the Bush Administration Medicaid cuts. Local newspapers in ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008True Stimulus: Eliminate New Mexico’s Personal Income TaxBy Kurt T. WeberFiled As: Budget and TaxThe Rio Grande Foundation has proposed an economic stimulus plan for New Mexico: the elimination of that state’s personal income tax. A recent RGF report outlines a specific, four-year plan for doing so. more »»
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Saturday, April 19, 2008Arkansas Policy Foundation has a New WebsiteBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Budget and Tax, Education (k-12), GeneralThe Arkansas Policy Foundation has a relatively new website with a new URL (www.arkansaspolicyfoundation.org). Its policy accomplishments page mentions an ... more »»
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Friday, April 18, 2008Does Your State Have a Transparency Database?By John LaPlanteFiled As: Budget and TaxDoes your state have an online database at which you can check into who's getting tax dollars? The Nevada Open Government Initiative offers a clickable map. Hover over your state and you see a web address on the screen, you can surf over to your ... more »»
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008It's Tax Day. Woo. Hoo.Filed As: Budget and TaxIt's the most wonderful time of the year ... for tax collectors, that is. The Tax Foundation tells us that Tax Freedom Day won't come for another week. Meanwhile, Dave Barry offers a partial explanation for it all: "the Catfish ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008Another State Budget Goes OnlineFiled As: Budget and TaxThe Washington Policy Center reports on some good news for the cause of transparency of public spending:
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