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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

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Tax States of the States: Mixed, Murky and Sometimes Mercurial

Governor LePage wants big tax cuts for Maine. Republican Paul LePage’s new budget proposal would cut the top income tax rate by 2.2 percentage points to 5.75 percent, and apply it to single tax filers with incomes over $50,000, instead of the current threshold of $21,200. The plan would cut

January 12, 2015Renu Zaretsky