State Income Tax

If you call someone a "Tallahassee insider" and an "Obama liberal" until your face turns Republican red, is that enough to gloss over your own shortcomings? That, in a nutshell, is what the race for Florida governor has become. Republican......

GNYHA and 1199 (the hospitals and the union) are already on the air, hiding behind the name Healthcare Education Project, calling for "Fair Share Tax Reform" -- which is their term for protecting themselves by urging Paterson to raise taxes......

Popular Atlantic blogger Marc Ambinder calls the Tim Geithner tax issue a "hiccup," which pretty much summarizes the media reaction so far. But does that reflect reality, or a desire to be nice to all things Obama in the......

Last week, the Empire Center's EJ McMahon pushed out a piece arguing against increased taxes on the wealthy -- a so-called millionaire's tax -- to close the state's budget gap, and ameliorate health and education cuts and fee hikes. Contrary......

by Mark Silva The morning after President Barack Obama's first big speech to Congress, people seem to be talking as much about the first big national appearance of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, he of the state where they used to......

by Mark Silva Radio's Rush Limbaugh has been called the voice of the Republican Party (wishful thinking among the spokesmen for the Democratic Party who are calling the commentator with the "golden microphone'' and the audience of 12 million that.)......

We make a big deal of Florida being one of the few states without an income tax. It???s one reason lots of wealthy athletes make their homes here. While it???s doubtful any of the top free agents, including LeBron James,......

by Mark Silva More than $160 billion in tax relief has been granted to families and businesses under the American Recovery and Reinvetment Act signed into law last year, Presdent Barack Obama announced today with a radio address near the......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama today reported earning $5.5 million last year, with the vast majority of it from the sale of the president's books. The first couple also paid $1.792 million in federal......

It takes special gall to raise taxes for some Illinoisans so soon after they were hit with a massive increase in state income tax rates. So, give an audacity award to any "progressive" trying to renew the ill-timed and perennial campaign to replace...

In the great pile of email that arrived after last Sunday's column on millionaires who whine about "class warfare," there were numerous defenses of wealthy "job creators like Mitt Romney," and an equal number of attacks on "liberals like President Obama"...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown may still pull out a victory for his beleaguered tax measure. Then he can tell all us kibitzers to go eat a big Thanksgiving plate of crow. Polls show "yes" votes in the high 40s with the "no" side in the low 40s....