INDEX
- Economic Issues Dominate at the Bloggers Briefing
- Pushback Against EPA’s Attempts to Regulate Carbon Emissions Grows
- Minnesota Gubernatorial Candidate Running on a Platform of Tax Hikes
Thursday, March 11, 2010
- Michigan Jobs Ain't What They Used To Be...Unless You Work For The Government
- ATR and CFA Support Earmark Moratorium
- CFA Supports Earmark Moratorium (CFA Site »)
- Voter Fraud in the Name of Tax Hikes
- Ballooning Deficits in Greece Foreshadowing Future for the U.S.? (ASA Site »)
- Green Jobs FAIL
- The Evergreen Tax and Fee Spree
- Pelosi: "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it" (CFA Site »)
- ATR Staffer Testifies Before U.S. House Energy & Commerce Select Committee
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
- The endemic rot in government run health care
- Senate Unanimously Passes Coburn PAYGO Transparency Amendment (CFA Site »)
- The Debt Panel's 800-lb. Gorilla: Why Andy Stern Stands Out
- The Left Agree: Obamacare Ushers In Their Radical Ideological Agenda
- We Ought Focus On Cutting Taxes & Spending, Not Deficits
- The Debt Panel's 800-lb. Gorilla (AWF Site »)
-
Does the Obamacare Investment Surtax
Apply to Capital Gains? - ATR Urges Opposition to Sen. Isakson Pension Bailout
- Taxpayers to Legislators: Clean Virginia Budget of Taxes
- ATR Supports the Georgia JOBS Act
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
- ATR Urges Utah Governor Herbert to Veto Tax Increase
- More on the VAT
- Public Sector Jobs
- How 550,000 jobs were destroyed by the minimum wage hike
- How Obamacare Will Hurt Poor Women & Children Most
- Federal Workers Make $11,000 More Than Private Sector Workers, and There’s More of Them (AWF Site »)
- Really?!? If This is Transparency, Beware of Opacity (CFA Site »)
Monday, March 8, 2010
- Legislation Introduced to Put Ronald Reagan on the $50 Bill
- Pledge Signer Wins Illinois Republican Gubernatorial Primary
- New Jersey Transparency Legislation Broadened to Encompass Localities (CFA Site »)
- "Net Neutrality" To Kill Jobs
- NY Supreme Court Votes to Evict Residents and Close Businesses (PRA Site »)
- California US Senate Candidates Square Off in First Debate
Friday, March 5, 2010
- ATR and CFA Support the Spending Limit Amendment
- Utah Representative Breaks Tax Pledge
- AWF Will Rate Vote on House Jobs Bill (AWF Site »)
- Energy Tax Hike Series: Use it or Lose it Tax
Thursday, March 4, 2010
- The reliability of spending "estimates"
- Utah State Senator Tries to Sweeten Tax Hike with Pork
- Obama Administration Makes Attempt to Seize Millions of Acres Across America (PRA Site »)
- More "Stimulus" Boondoggles - Social Engineering and Lobbying for Higher Taxes
- Energy Tax Hike Series: Raises Taxes on Tertiary Injectants
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
- Is This Reality or a Science Fiction Dystopia?
- Andy Stern Update: US Attorney Reviewing Case & Obama Appoints Stern to Debt Panel
- Texans: Do You Know Which Candidates Have Signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge?
- AWF Asks White House to Take Position on Andy Stern Investigation After Appointment to Debt Panel (AWF Site »)
- AWF Continues Andy Stern Investigation (AWF Site »)
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
- Energy Tax Hike Series: Superfund Tax Reinstated
Monday, March 1, 2010
- Rick Berg First Pledge Signer in North Dakota Congressional Race
- Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute . . .the Economy with Taxes or Unnecessary Spending
- Raise Taxes or Raise Taxes? Washington’s Solution to $2.8 Billion Budget Deficit
- Andy Stern Appointed to Debt Panel While Under Criminal Review for Lobbying Activities
- Andy Stern Appointed to Debt Panel While Under Criminal Review for Lobbying Activities (AWF Site »)
- Energy Tax Hike Series: IRS Sec. 199 Repeal
Friday, February 26, 2010
-
Pwned!
Paul Ryan on Healthcare and Deficits
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Utah Legislators Paving the Way for Higher Taxes
From Kelly William Cobb on Monday, February 1, 2010 2:10 PM
Over the past five years, state spending has grown by 41% in Utah – even when indexed for inflation. In that light, it’s easy to explain why the state is set to overspend revenues by $700 million this year. Instead of bringing this spending in check, however, lawmakers have proposed a litany of tax hikes including:
- A $1.30 per pack cigarette tax hike. On average, smokers have a median income of little more than $36,000, about 30 percent less than non-smokers. That hasn’t stopped lawmakers from pushing a $94 million tax hike onto lower income individuals.
- Establishing a progressive, three-tiered income tax with a top rate of 7% – abolishing the state’s 5% flat tax.
- A 10-cent gas tax hike set to cost consumers over $100 million.
- Eliminating the sales tax vendor credit for another $20 million tax hike.
- Raising the tax on food to match the state’s general sales tax rate.
Utah residents: CLICK HERE to write your lawmakers now and urge them to take these tax hikes off the table.
(photo by Paraflyer)
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Comments
Utah is a very interesting state. Republicans find it to be an easy place to gather votes, but (and this is completely coming from my own ideas) this is frequently because of religious affiliation more than conservative economic policies. Natural resources are a huge source of revenue for Utah. Tourism as well. There is plenty of money to be made there...with the Mormon religion being so prevalent, taxation of liquor and cigarettes is probably all too easy. However, wishing to control the public's behavior has drastic economic (and obviously liberty) costs in this case as well.
>> Not From Utah but Visit Frequently Monday, February 1, 2010 5:28 PM