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Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering axing some exempt items or services to help balance this year’s overdue budget.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld a decision by the Oklahoma Tax Commission today and found that Muscogee Nation citizen ...

North Carolina Senators are proposing to yet again ignore the core needs of the majority of North Carolinians in favor of more income tax cuts for the wealthy few. The Senate's budget would take the ...

Pursue a graduated income tax code? Try to invalidate the 1992 constitutional amendment altogether? They’re all on the table.

Ask voters to eliminate the cap? Use some of the money in excess of TABOR’s revenue limits to fund specific programs and services? Pursue a graduated income tax code? Try to invalidate the 1992 ...

Taxpayers With Taxable Income of $100,000 or Less Taxpayers with taxable income of $100,000 or less don’t have tax brackets, per se. Although these individuals are also taxed on a graduated ...

The tax cut proposals currently moving through the legislative process threaten to hobble our already dysfunctional state government just as America enters a period of deep economic uncertainty.

Tariffs do add tax revenue. Before President Woodrow Wilson signed the graduated income tax in 1913, 30-50% tariffs funded 85% of the relatively small federal budget. Tariffs fell to 5% for a decade.

Pennsylvania needs fewer school districts and a graduated-income tax table that is based on the ability of the taxpayers to pay. 39 states already have this tax, and only North Dakota has a top ...