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No Bang for the Buck 10 May 2013 | 02:24 am
New York State’s comptroller says giving $2.8 billion in tax breaks over five years added more than a million jobs, which would be great news except that the state lost jobs.
No Use for Useless Stances 9 May 2013 | 05:22 pm
Do you know what a use tax is? Most people don’t. Ever paid a use tax? Most people haven’t, in part because they don’t know what it is. Typically, states impose use taxes when they can’t force a selle...
Pot Calling Kettle Black? 8 May 2013 | 09:30 pm
Good Jobs First recently published the second edition of a report entitled “Grading Places: What Do the Business Climate Rankings Really Tell Us?” The purpose of the report is to examine various busin...
Go Big or Go Home -- Tax Reform in Maine 8 May 2013 | 05:55 pm
The big idea of the last week was a dramatic tax reform proposal in Maine. The idea is big and bold. Big and bold usually means a measure has no chance of passage. State legislators from both parties ...
A Lost Age of Fiscal Heroes? Not So Much. 7 May 2013 | 11:34 pm
The looming debate over the federal debt limit is a depressing reminder that we're living in the Age of the Manufactured Crisis. And it encourages a sort of political nostalgia – a yearning for that b...
Will DOMA Issues Doom Tax Reform? 7 May 2013 | 06:46 pm
The already grinding gears of immigration reform slowed again last week when Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) angered conservatives by suggesting that his committee extend to roughly 40,000 binational sam...
Plan to Tie Tax Reform to Debt Ceiling Will Likely Fail 6 May 2013 | 09:12 pm
House Republicans don’t like the idea of raising the debt ceiling. Many would like to see steep spending cuts that would balance the government’s finances and prevent the need for further debt ceiling...
Fast Track to Nowhere 6 May 2013 | 05:44 pm
Some in Congress think mixing the hair-trigger politics of the debt ceiling with the trench-warfare politics of tax reform is a procedural path that will solve all our fiscal problems. Why do we pay t...
Subsidies – Good News and Not So Good 3 May 2013 | 09:59 pm
The rising tide of tax giveaways to business is finally getting some change, and scrutiny, at least in New York state , though not necessarily for sound reasons.
Taxes Don’t Matter Until, Well, They Matter 2 May 2013 | 06:21 pm
One thing is true about New York – City and State. They’ll tax anything – your car, your house, your clothes, your Big Gulp, your bullets (that is for the three people they let buy guns), people who l...
