Tax Policy Blog reports that the Maryland legislature is considering whether to pass a law that would raise tax rates on wealthy individuals. And what is considered wealthy in Maryland? $100,000.00 of annual income: Maryland’s tax special session began today; expect more analysis on it from us tomorrow. However, we just received detail on S.B. [...]
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Bruce Bartlett writing for the New York Times in Will Rich People Desert the U.S. if Their Taxes Are Raised? says: In recent years, the number of Americans renouncing their citizenship has increased. According to the international tax lawyer, Andrew Mitchel, the number of Americans renouncing their citizenship rose to 1,781 in 2011 from 231 [...]
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The AP’s Sean Murphy reports that Oklahoma Republicans want to abolish their state income tax: A year after Republicans swept into office across the country, many have trained their sights on what has long been a fiscal conservative’s dream: the steep reduction or even outright elimination of state income taxes. The idea has circulated among academics [...]
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Don’t tell the propagandists of the pro-tax, pro-union, pro-big government crowd this but the red states (you know, the ones with all of those toothless conservative rednecks in them), and their low tax, pro-business policies regularly out-perform the blue states and their high tax, pro-union policies. John Hinderaker of PowerLine has the story (emphasis added): Today, we have [...]
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Joseph Henchman of Tax Policy Blog reports in Colorado Voters Reject Income and Sales Tax Increase: Colorado voters yesterday rejected Proposition 103, which would have raised $2.9 billion between 2012 and 2016 by raising the state income tax from 4.63% to 5% and the state sales tax from 2.9% to 3% for five years. 36.3% voted [...]
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Several months ago vice squads in West Palm Beach, Florida began the practice of giving local beat reporters the names and mugshots of men who had been arrested for allegedly soliciting prostitutes. I believed then, and still do, that in a country that declares a man to be innocent until proven guilty, the practice is illegal.¹ The reporters, of course, maintain that they have [...]
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The Center On Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has, once again, contorted itself to make the case for increased taxes. In a report titled Tax Flight is a Myth the CBPP claims that, Attacks on sorely-needed increases in state tax revenues often include the unproven claim that tax hikes will drive large numbers of households —particularly the most affluent [...]
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