A Democrat state representative in Maine has introduced a bill that would double the excise tax on cigarettes to $4.00 a pack. Due to Maine law, all other tobacco products would also be subject to a 100 percent rate increase.
Tax collections of $11,311 per capita in the District of Columbia surpass those in any state, according to an April 14 report by the Washington-based, nonpartisan Tax Foundation, as of fiscal year 2018 (the most recent data available).
A report by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity issued on April 12 stated that the proposed so-called “infrastructure” plan of the Biden Administration is really a $1 trillion Green New Deal in disguise.
A March 31 report issued by the Washington-based nonpartisan Tax Foundation reveals that the benefits of the Biden-proposed $2 trillion “infrastructure” plan won’t outweigh its $2 trillion tax increase. The proposal is an eight-year, $2 trillion infrastructure plan paid for by $2 trillion in tax increases on U.S. corporations spread out over 15 years.
An analysis by the Washington-based nonpartisan Tax Foundation found that Joe Biden’s proposal to raise the federal corporate income tax rate to 28 percent would, for most states, increase the combined average top tax...
A study released on March 31, 2021 by the nonpartisan, Washington-based Tax Foundation on Pres. Biden’s so-called “Infrastructure Plan” showed that, if passed, the legislation would make the U.S. corporate rate the highest in the world.
Illinois has been so poorly managed for decades that even Illinoisans now accept the folly of the string of failed politicians and bureaucrats.
In a long history of mismanagement, Chicago bureaucrats have done nearly everything possible to destroy the most magnificent city in the mid-west. Now its future is on the chopping block.
“Illinois Governor Jay Robert ‘J. B.’ Pritzker, probably the most incompetent governor in the history of the state, is crushing Illinois small businesses with his Draconian lockdown measures,” said Jim Tobin, economist and president of Taxpayer Education Foundation (TEF). “Yet, despite being the10th most restrictive state, Illinois’ COVID-19 death rate is higher than all of its neighbors.”
View as PDF“The far-left politicians in Blue States who are pushing stricter-and-stricter lockdowns supposedly to contain the COVID-19 virus have an agenda, but their agenda has nothing to do with medicine,” said Jim Tobin,...
