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Remember when they extended the quarter point tax increase to maintain the roads? We don\'t need private authority, with a board of directors, to administer the roads and set up the tolls. sounds kinda like the Fed...
Remember when they extended the quarter point tax increase to maintain the roads? We don\'t need private authority, with a board of directors, to administer the roads and set up the tolls. sounds kinda like the Fed...
Remember when they extended the quarter point tax increase to maintain the roads? We don't need private authority, with a board of directors, to administer the roads and set up the tolls. sounds kinda like the Fed...
The local Super Bowl Host Committee shoveled out about $17 million for the weeklong Super Bowl party in Phoenix. Some are lobbying to have the legislature make taxpayers bear more of the expense of bringing the Super Bowl back to Phoenix in 2012.
The stadium is funded through a combination of sources, including a tax on large businesses and stadium concessions. The ownership, headed by Washington billionaire developer Theodore Lerner, is adding about $50 million of its own money
You work hard, save, buy a house, pay it off, retire, but you really don't own your house. Economy turns bad, house values shoot up. Dollar value drops. Inflation. And you can't pay your property taxes. Work for gov't. for $7/ hour to pa
Politicians camoflage taxes in several ways. SF Mayor Gavin Newsome calls it a "fee". San Franciscans wrote in with their own ideas for "fees".
But one way or the other, Newsom wants the merchants of sweet to sweat a bit. By the way, Newsom said he has no plans for a Twinkies or Ho Hos tax. [sure]
When the legislature is in seesion, the Capitol is awash with millions of dollars worth of lobbying talent. You have never seen so many suits per square yard in your life. In Sacramento, nothing of importance happens without the involvement
The labor pains were coming, so Jessica Hodges got going. The 26-year-old bank teller sped toward Inova Fairfax Hospital, but before she got there, the law got her -- 57 mph in a 35 zone. Reckless driving. Hodges's labor pains subsided -- they tu
The Sneaky War on American Motorists
With summer travel in full gear and motorists more conscious of the price of gasoline than ever before, few Americans realize that up to 60 cents of the cost per galling is the result of local, state and federal taxes.
Because earmarks are funded from spending levels that have been determined before a single earmark is agreed to, with or without earmarks the spending levels remain the same.
The era of tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections could end this fall, if recent proposals in the U.S. Congress prove successful.
Millions are being paid to government employees in unused sick days.
Money is wealth, minimum wage laws increase wages thereby creating economic growth, war brings economic prosperity because it creates jobs, buy American because it creates jobs thereby creates economic expansion, increased tariffs protect American jo
State and local taxes will consume a record setting 11% of the nation’s income in 2007. Since 1986, the state-local tax burden had never fallen below 10% or risen above 10.9%. Figure 1 charts the course of the nation’s state-local tax burden sin
Tacoma police say last month's 12-day anti-war protests cost the city an unbudgeted $500,000 to provide a large-scale law enforcement presence. The rough estimate covers overtime, regular compensation, equipment and food for hundreds of worker
Google, Dell and Advanced Micro Devices are discovering that building new facilities in the USA can generate almost as much controversy as sending jobs overseas. Former state judge Robert Orr questions the perks used to woo Google. The company is get
A potentially explosive dispute in the City Too Busy to Hate is taking shape over a proposal to break Fulton County in two and split off Atlanta's predominantly white, affluent suburbs to the north from some of the metropolitan area's poorest
Christmas shoppers will pay higher sales taxes in many places this holiday season, and it's local governments — not states — that are imposing them. States trimmed sales tax rates slightly from 2003 to 2005, but the savings were more than offs
The city's new storm water utility fee(tax) is coming under fire from 2 legislative candidates who hope to put the matter before city voters. House District candidate David Hughes said he hopes to begin the city's referendum process today
In one corner is a group of 8,000 or so adherents of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, an offshoot of the Mormon Church that had long paid the property taxes of its members, sometimes even rolling a wheelbarrow through m
Proponents of the seven bond issues that face Phoenix voters have been scurrying around trying to claim “there’s a loophole” that brings their statutorily and blatantly illegal, taxpayer-paid-for signs into compliance.
Why should we trust the city now when it already didn't level with us in the past on two major downtown projects?
After motorist T. Allen Morgan got a speeding ticket in Coopertown — a town known for its heavy-handed traffic enforcement — he tried to pay his ticket like a good citizen. But he added a little note on his check which angered Mayor Danny Crosby.
Valley mayors made a public plea to the Legislature, asking state leaders not to stop them from stuffing the pockets of mall developers and car dealers with what's supposed to be our money.
Washington's planned waterfront baseball stadium cleared its last major obstacle after the city and Major League Baseball signed a 30-year lease that caps city-funded costs at $611 million. [Voting: The poor will pay for the wealthy to watch.]
New Orleans is seeking federal aid and new loans to ride out a $204 million budget shortfall caused by the expected loss of all property tax revenue.
Here are the projects people want to indebt your property and costs of government for. Suckers!
