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Posts tagged Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
Daily Debunk: Tax income where it's growing — with the wealthy
Some are profiting mightily during COVID collapse
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Ted CoxCoalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment, Daily Debunk, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Flat Tax, Barack Obama, Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, Ralph Martire, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Kenneth Griffin, Citadel Investments, Richard Uihlein, Sam Zell, Daniel Biss, Joseph Stiglitz
Daily Debunk: Millionaires don't flee taxes
Yet Fair Tax opponents persist in repeating ‘baseless canard’ about ‘tax flight’
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Greg Baise, Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity, BGA, Quentin Fulks, Vote Yes for Fairness, Illinois Exodus, Tax Flight, Sue Rezin, Daniel Biss, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
Daily Debunk: Most farmers gain in Fair Tax
Center for Tax and Budget Accountability debunks resistance from Illinois Farm Bureau
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Flat Tax, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Illinois Farm Bureau, Illinois Farmers, Illinois Farms, Allison Flanagan, Illinois Corporate Tax
Daily Debunk: The 'conservative bugaboo' of 'tax flight'
St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial backs Fair Tax Amendment
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Ted CoxDaily Debunk, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Illinois Exodus, Tax Flight, Bill Brady, Better Government Association, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Dan Proft, Ralph Martire
Daily Debunk: Small-biz owners are no different from anyone else
If they clear $250K, they’ll pay a slightly higher rate under Fair Tax
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Small Businesses, Coalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment, Kenneth Griffin, Jeff Friedman, Home Plate Bar and Grill, J.B. Pritzker, BGA, AARP Illinois, U.S. Small Business Administration, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Ralph Martire, University of Illinois, J. Fred Giertz, Pat Quinn
Daily Debunk: Government is not a business
Tying spending to economic growth is a terrible idea guaranteed to worsen downturns
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Red-herring tax argument smells like dead fish
Studies show little if any connection between taxes and people leaving the state
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Dan Proft, Ralph Martire, Allison Flanagan, Chicago Reporter, Curtis Black, Illinois Exodus, Bruce Rauner, Pat Quinn, Better Government Association, BGA, Illinois Department of Revenue, Cristobal Young, Tax Flight, Kenneth Griffin, J.B. Pritzker
Tax flight: Myth versus reality
Anti-taxers say the fair tax will prompt rich residents to flee state, but two studies find that prediction patently unfair
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Flat Tax, J.B. Pritzker, American Sociological Association, Illinois Population Loss, Tax Flight, Justin Fox, Will Guzzardi, Chuck Weaver, BGA, Dan Proft, Ralph Martire, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
Wealth tax: It's not about screwing Scrooge
Like the fair tax, it’s about creating a more equitable taxation system to sustain society
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Ted CoxWealth Tax, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Ebenezer Scrooge, Larry Yando, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Gini Index, Robert Reich, Thomas Piketty, Ralph Martire, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, J.B. Pritzker, Good Jobs First, Gabriel Zucman
Something we can all agree on: A fair tax
‘This isn’t about punishing the rich; it’s about creating a system that’s more equitable for everyone’
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Ted CoxJ.B. Pritzker, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Flat Tax, Dan Proft, Ralph Martire, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Bill Brady, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Economic Policy Institute, Illinois Fair Tax Calculator, Illinois Policy Institute, William McNary, Citizen Action Illinois
A taxing debate
Conservative Dan Proft goes at it over ‘fair tax’ with Ralph Martire of Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
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Ted CoxDan Proft, Ralph Martire, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Illinois Income Tax, Illinois Flat Tax, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Education Funding, Illinois Population, Paul Krugman, Federation of Tax Administrators, J.B. Pritzker
'Fair tax' faces high bar: New video
Constitution change required to move past regressive ‘flat tax,’ and it’s intentionally difficult
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Ted CoxJ.B. Pritzker, Illinois Flat Tax, Progressive Income Tax, Graduated Income Tax, Donald Trump, U.S. Supreme Court, Citizens United, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Frank Manzo IV, Illinois Economic Policy Institute