Talking Taxes

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We've all heard Mark Twain's quip that "there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." For those of us...

From Sunday's edition, in which David Gregory tries, and tries, and tries to get John Boehner to answer the f***ing question at hand, wh...

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Wonder no more: a new report from Citizens for Tax Justice examines the "Economic Freedom Act," which would add an additional $7 ...

GOP gubernatorial candidate Mike Montandon is making his views on Nevada property tax reform known-- and so far they all seem quite sensible...

In January, Louisiana lawmakers will be hearing a lot about exactly how big that state's transportation funding shortfall is, as a commi...

This week Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle released the outline of her budget proposal for next year. It's not a pretty picture: the two mo...

Earlier today, the House of Representatives passed its most recent version of the "Tax Extenders" package (H.R. 4213). The "t...

In Louisiana, the answer is probably "yes, they could." An excellent editorial in the Daily Advocate notes that the ten lowest-p...

The count is in: the recently-ended Louisiana tax amnesty brought in $303 million in revenue for the state. The lion's share of the mon...

In today's Washington Post, Kenneth Harney reports evidence that some people are falsely claiming the new federal income tax credit for...

Barack Obama's fiscal policy platform as a presidential candidate was hardly a profile in courage, but he had his moments. This, however...

A big tax fairness gain in Georgia today: after thinking on it for a few weeks, Governor Sonny Perdue has decided to veto legislation that w...

The debate over how to resolve Illinois' looming budget deficit has, so far, been an unusually gratifying one. A brand-new governor with...

Who knew Georgia lawmakers were such fans of the property tax? Only a year after giving serious consideration to a plan that would have rep...

The chart above probably answers the question asked by the title of this post. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. If there was an ...

Buried in President Obama’s recently released budget blueprint were four little-noticed and perhaps unexciting sentences that could signal ...

Yesterday the National Retail Federation published an open letter to President-to-be Barack Obama urging that come January, Obama's stim...

Earlier this week, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine proposed doubling the state's cigarette tax from 30 to 60 cents per pack. Once upon a tim...