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state preemption

State and Local Issues: TaxVox

The Case of the Plastic Bag Tax: Why don’t we all carry that weight?

What do you use when you check out at the grocery store? What does it cost a person to stop using plastic bags?
April 4, 2018Renu Zaretsky
State and Local Issues: TaxVox

Guns, Soda, and a Modest Proposal

Or, The Case of State Preemption, Taxation, and Consternation
Last month, I had to tell my middle-school age children that something really bad happened at a high school. Not at the high school just over a mile from our home in Michigan, but at a high school in Parkland, Florida. Our children were horrified by the tragedy, and given a recent action by our school board, by something else.
March 7, 2018Renu Zaretsky