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Massachusetts’ Population Leak Influences Gubernatorial Campaign
Opinion -Take the net departures of all the people who have fled Massachusetts in the past five years, and you would have a city the size of Norfolk, Virginia, nearly 240,000 people in all. -
Minn. Twins Win Stadium Subsidy Deal
Opinion -Years of concerted effort by the Minnesota Twins Major League Baseball team paid off on May 26, when Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) signed a stadium subsidy bill before the start of the Twins game against the Seattle Mariners. -
Tax Hikers Lose in North Carolina, Indiana, Oregon
Opinion -Taxpayers scored a huge victory in North Carolina in the May primary election as longtime incumbent state Rep. Richard T. Morgan (R-Moore) lost his bid for the Republican nomination for his seat to political novice Joe Boylan. -
Florida Turns Down Subsidy for Marlins Stadium
Opinion -Although Florida lawmakers declined to provide financial assistance to the Florida Marlins Major League Baseball franchise, a proposed move of the team to San Antonio, Texas has been killed. -
Okla. Senator Slams Congress for its Wild Spending, Rules Violations
Opinion -Managing Editor's note: Witnesses at a May 25 hearing of the U.S. -
Consumers Will Get Refunds for 1898 Phone Tax
Opinion -More than 100 years after the Spanish-American War ended, the 3 percent telephone tax that was imposed to pay for the war is about to end. The U.S. -
Election Earthquake Rattles Pennsylvania Legislature
Opinion -"Earthquake" is one of the words politicians are using to describe the ouster of numerous incumbent lawmakers in the May primary elections by voters who were angered and outraged over tax hikes, spending increases, and boosts in legislative pay. -
State Telecom Taxes Stay High
Opinion -Even as the U.S. Treasury ends the century-old federal excise tax on phone service, the states continue to single out telecom services as a cash cow. -
CEO Makes Case Against Corporate Welfare: An Interview with Mark Baker
Opinion -With nearly 100 stores in 18 states, Gander Mountain is the nation's third-largest outdoors retailer. -
Analysis: Targeted Tax Incentives Unnecessary, Ineffective
Opinion -For more than a decade, the Michigan Economic Growth Authority (MEGA) has been doling out significant tax incentives to businesses that promise to create new jobs or retain existing ones. -
Chicago Targets Big Retailers for Mandated Wage Hikes
Opinion -The Chicago City Council is considering requiring "big box" retailers to pay wages far above the federal minimum wage, as well as a guaranteed level of fringe benefits in addition to wages. -
Estonia Creates an Economic Miracle
Opinion -Mart Laar was barely 32 years old in 1992, when he became prime minister of Estonia, a small nation on the Baltic Sea that had just emerged from decades of Communist oppression as a satellite state of the Soviet Union. -
Florida Wants to Double Local Car Rental Tax
Opinion -The Florida legislature voted in May to allow local governments to increase the current car rental tax surcharge from $2 to $4 per rental. Now only Gov. -
Major Retailer Challenges Targeted Tax Incentives
Opinion -In a rare development, a major retailer is challenging lucrative economic development incentives frequently sought by two of its competitors. It's a revealing episode full of public policy lessons. -
Supreme Court Dismisses Case on Tax Breaks
Opinion -In a unanimous 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on May 15 dismissed a lawsuit over the constitutionality of Ohio's investment tax credit. The case, known as Cuno v. -
Line-Item Veto, Spending Caps Likely To Be Ineffective, Experts Say
Opinion -(Chicago, IL - June 21, 2006) Last week, Senator Bill Frist, M.D. (R-TN) announced his support for a proposed budgetary reform bill called the Stop Over-Spending Act. -
Comments on the National Institutes of Health Conference on the State of the Science on Tobacco Use
Opinion -On June 12-14, the National Institutes of Health hosted a conference in Bethesda, Maryland, titled "State of the Science Conference on Tobacco Use: Prevention, Cessation, and Control. -
Anti-Trust or Anti-Americanism?
Opinion -The European Court of First Instance (CFI) buzzed with energy in late April as Microsoft and the European Commission (EC) squared off over a 2004 ruling that, along with a fine of €497 million ($613 million), creates a new Microsoft product and exposes -
Illinois Taxes Hurting Airline Industry
Opinion -O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, perennially one of the nation's busiest airports, has the dubious distinction of charging the nation's highest jet fuel taxes. -
Wyoming Has Best Tax Climate, New York Worst: Report
Opinion -Anyone thinking about starting a new business or relocating an existing business might want to consider Wyoming, which has the nation's most business-friendly tax climate, according to the third edition of the Tax Foundation's State Business Tax Climate -
Michigan Citizens Hope to Limit State’s Spending
Opinion -Voters in Michigan may get a chance this November to make big changes in state policy and how the state manages its tax revenues. Petitioners across the state are gathering signatures to put the Stop OverSpending (SOS) initiative on the 2006 ballot. -
Commentary: Blowing Up a ‘Damnable Tax’
Opinion -During his 2006 State of the County address, Oakland County (Michigan) Executive L. Brooks Patterson called for a petition drive and ballot initiative to eliminate the state's economically destructive Single Business Tax. -
New Mexico Vetoes Denounced as Political Payback
Opinion -New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) recently used his line-item veto powers to cut $269 million in spending out of the state's FY 2007 budget. Richardson issued his vetoes on March 8 in what he called "an effort to restore fiscal responsibility.
