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Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Washington’s Theater of Infrastructure: The Trick Is To Get The Joke

Yesterday was a classic example of Washington theater at its best. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer left a White House...
May 1, 2019Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Is The US Ready For A Gas Tax Increase?

Is The US Ready For A Gas Tax Increase? House Democrats are talking enthusiastically about passing a big infrastructure bill by summer. President Trump keeps...
March 12, 2019Howard Gleckman
Business Taxes: TaxVox

Economists Love Carbon Taxes. Voters Don't.

Economists—both liberal and conservative—love carbon taxes. The levies, they say, would create market incentives for people to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels and, more...
December 27, 2018Howard Gleckman
State and Local Issues: TaxVox

2018 Voters Faced a Slew of Confusing Revenue  Measures and Rejected Most Tax Increases

With so much to follow in the midterm elections, it is easy to lose sight of a bumper crop of tax-related ballot measures . But...
November 9, 2018Vanessa Williamson
: TaxVox

Halloween Candy for Tax Nerds: 2018's State Ballot Initiatives

Election Day 2018 has a bumper crop of voter initiatives on state taxes, ranging from new levies on carbon, payroll, motor fuels, marijuana, soda, and...
October 25, 2018Richard C. Auxier
: TaxVox

Governors Talk Taxes in Their State of the State Addresses

It’s difficult to predict where states will end up on tax policy this year given last year’s budget drama and this year’s new federal tax...
February 16, 2018Richard C. Auxier
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

How Did the Gas Tax Lose Its Mojo, Even Among Conservatives?

With just a few days left before federal funding for highway programs expires, the Senate is debating all sorts of amendments to an extension-- from export subsidies to the Affordable Care Act. But there is one subject it will not debate—the gas tax. Except for a handful of lawmakers, nobody in
July 27, 2015Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

How Will Congress Fund Roads and Transit?

In 24 days, federal spending authority under the highway trust fund comes to an end. Without legislation to keep the program going and money to finance it, road projects will slow in the midst of high construction season. And where are Congress and the White House on this perennial issue? Nowhere.
July 7, 2015Howard Gleckman
State and Local Issues: TaxVox

While Washington’s Efforts to Fund Roads Go Nowhere, Red States Are Raising Gas Taxes

In about six weeks, federal money to keep the Highway Trust Fund going will once again dry up and Congress will begin its predictable scramble to keep cash flowing to roads, bridges, and transit projects. The reason for the gridlock: Neither Congress nor President Obama is willing to back a gas tax
June 10, 2015Howard Gleckman
: TaxVox

Still On a Road to Nowhere

A short road too often traveled. Federal highway funding is due to expire in about two weeks, and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says a temporary extension—the 33rd in six years—would “prolong a dangerous status quo of funding infrastructure at a level that has left our transportation system
May 13, 2015Renu Zaretsky