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Budget & Tax News
August 2004
AFSCME, Tennesseans Back State Income Tax Deduction
The national union of state and local government employees has endorsed the proposed deductibility of state sales taxes at the federal level. In a June ... (read more)

August 2004 Budget & Tax News (PDF)
The August issue of Budget & Tax News offers a centerspread feature recalling President Ronald Reagan’s fight against inflation and the role he played in ... (read more)

Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 28
Canadians finally started working for themselves, rather than their governments, on June 28 of this year, one day later than they did last year. According ... (read more)

House Passes Pro-Growth Tax Reforms
On June 17, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 4520, the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, which repeals export subsidies found to be in violation ... (read more)

Job-Threatening Liquor Tax Hike Defeated in Michigan
The Michigan legislature defeated Governor Jennifer Granholm's (D) proposed tax increase on distilled spirits products in June, averting what would have ... (read more)

Kansas Taxpayer Group Praises Pro-Growth, Anti-Tax Legislators
The Kansas Taxpayers Network (KTN) released its 2004 fiscal ratings for the Kansas legislature on June 28. This is the ninth year the Wichita-based taxpayers' ... (read more)

Liquor Laws Increase Sales in Ohio, New York, and Delaware
Ohio Governor Bob Taft (R) signed into law on June 17 a bill rolling back the state's ban on Sunday liquor sales. The law became effective immediately. Senate ... (read more)

Methodology of Tax Freedom Day Calculation
Tax Freedom Days are calculated on the Fraser Institute's Canadian Tax Simulator (CANTASIM). Statistics Canada's Social Policy Simulation Database and Model ... (read more)

New Jersey Governor Signs Bill to Tax Cosmetic Surgery
On the last day of June, New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey (D) signed into law a measure that will require patients to pay a tax on cosmetic plastic surgery ... (read more)

New York Senate Launches Campaign for $1 Billion Tax Cut
The Republican majority in the New York State Senate has launched a campaign for a package of tax cuts and tax credits it says would be valued at $1 billion ... (read more)

Oklahoma Taxpayers Are Fiscal Conservatives, Poll Says
On June 1, the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) released the results of its most recent survey of 400 Oklahoma voters. The majority surveyed called ... (read more)

Pennsylvania Voters Want Property Tax Reform; Legislators Ignore Them
While legislators were in Harrisburg debating property tax relief and the current year budget, which should have been passed by July 1, a new poll from ... (read more)

Rich Pay More When Tax Rates Fall
Claiming that too many rich people and corporations aren't paying their fair share of taxes seems to be a sure way get applause on the campaign trail. But ... (read more)

Ronald Reagan and the Privatization Revolution
Ronald Reagan was a great president. He stood up for the ideas of limited government, free trade, and free markets, and the rollback of communism. Reagan ... (read more)

Ronald Reagan's Fight Against Inflation
One of the amusing things about the media is their compulsion always to present an alternative perspective to conservative successes, even when they look ... (read more)

Saving Social Security
Since its passage in 1935, the Social Security Act has helped provide economic security to millions of Americans. Over the years, Social Security programs ... (read more)

Smokers Head for the Border to Avoid Cigarette Tax Increase
Michigan smokers say they'll smoke 'em while they got 'em. And then get more. In Indiana. On July 1, a 75-cents-per-pack cigarette tax increase [took] ... (read more)

South Carolina Legislature Named
The taxpayers' advocacy organization Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named the South Carolina legislature "Porker of the Month" on June 8 for overriding ... (read more)

Table: Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush Tax Cuts
Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush Tax Cuts in Historical Perspective Tax LegislationTax Cut in Billions of Current Dollars (a)Tax Cut in Billions of Constant ... (read more)

Tax Cut Forces Take Raleigh by Storm
Taxpayers and grassroots activists from across North Carolina converged on the state capitol on May 27 to lobby their legislators for lower taxes and less ... (read more)

Taxpayer's Bill of Rights Faces Fine-Tuning in Colorado
A tug-of-war is underway in Colorado pitting the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) against state spending on education. Many analysts are pulling hard for ... (read more)

Texas Comptroller Calls for End to Discriminatory Federal Tax Rule
Texas is one of only seven states without a state income tax. According to the state's comptroller, that places Texans at a disadvantage when paying federal ... (read more)

The Bush Tax Plan: How Big Was the Cut?
There is a good deal of disagreement over just how big President George W. Bush's tax cuts really were, and hence whether they were a wise policy choice. According ... (read more)

Think Tank Presents Reagan's Legacy on Web
Although America has had 43 presidents so far, only a handful can be rightfully claimed to have an "age" or "era" named after them: Jefferson, Jackson, ... (read more)

Virginia Running Budget Surplus, But Tax Hike Passes Anyway
On June 11, Virginia Secretary of Finance John M. Bennett wrote a blockbuster memo to Governor Mark Warner (D), noting tax revenues were running much higher ... (read more)

Why Congress Can't Stop Spending
Congress spent one evening during the last week of June debating a token measure to reduce government spending by implementing very slight caps on some ... (read more)

Worldwide Sourcing Adds Jobs to U.S. Economy, IT Association Says
[Editor's note: Worldwide sourcing of information technology jobs, criticized by some liberals and conservatives alike as a drain on the U.S. economy, was ... (read more)