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August 14, 2018
Florida Voters to Consider Tax Hike Supermajority Question
Florida voters will decide in November whether to approve the creation of a constitutional requirement making it more difficult to raise taxes.
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August 14, 2018
Mountain View, California Voters to Consider ‘Jobs Tax’
Voters in Mountain View, California will consider whether to increase the local business license tax in this November’s election.
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August 14, 2018
Chicago Alderman Proposes UBI Experiment
Chicago alderman Ameya Pawar (D–Ward 47) is calling for the city government to study the idea of a government-administered universal basic income (UBI) pilot program to provide 1,000 families with a $500 payment every month.
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August 14, 2018
California Gov. Brown Signs Grocery Tax Moratorium
Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed a law temporarily prohibiting cities and counties in the state from enacting new grocery taxes or increasing existing levies on groceries, including sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs).
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August 14, 2018
Ohio Lawmakers Consider Online Travel Tax Change
The Ohio House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee is considering a bill that would raise taxes on online travel vendors.
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August 14, 2018
Americans are continuing to return to work and stay employed in 2018 as the American economic machine continues to roar, according to new statistics released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
August 14, 2018
As Colorado parents prepared to send their children back to school this fall, they faced yet another school year without a comprehensive educational tax credit system for those who wish to choose options other than the government-run school paradigm.
August 13, 2018
Two cases challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) may require the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve conflicts between earlier decisions reached by judges in lower courts.
August 13, 2018
With both chambers of Congress having approved House Resolution 2 (H.R. 2), also known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 or the “farm bill,” a congressional conference committee will reconcile differences between the two versions.
August 13, 2018
Review of The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy, by Jay Cost (Basic Books, 2018), 256 pages, ISBN-13 978-1541697461, $16.20 on Amazon.com.
August 13, 2018
Tesla announced it is laying off 9 percent of its solar workforce and shuttering a dozen U.S. installation facilities.
August 13, 2018
Two new peer-reviewed studies show hydraulic fracturing to produce oil and natural gas is not contaminating groundwater in the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania.
August 10, 2018
In case you have missed them since the early years of the Obama administration, the $1 trillion-a-year federal budget deficits are coming back, beginning with Uncle Sam’s new fiscal year for 2019, which starts on October 1, 2018.
August 10, 2018
T-Mobile's CEO John Legere and Sprint’s Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure discussed at length their combined company’s plans for 5G deployment if the government approves their merger.
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