The 24% wholesale tax was supposed to send $420 million a year to Michigan roads. James told marijuana executives at their own fundraiser he wants it gone, then said so publicly weeks later. He has not said how he would replace the road money.
Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track, with the second-worst food insecurity and second-worst women's health scores in the country. Greg Abbott signed the abortion ban and the school voucher law, never expanded Medicaid, and now runs on affordability after property tax levies rose to $89.4 billion and home insurance premiums rose 79%. Here is the record, and what each of the seventeen Republicans running for reelection has been busy with.
Abbott's new affordability plan promises to cut property taxes in half by zeroing out school taxes on homesteads. He has been governor since 2015, and statewide property tax levies have risen from $51.2 billion to $89.4 billion on his watch. Nearly 4 in 10 homesteads already owe no school tax, and Texas's 4.1 million renters get nothing.
The 2015 tax package was a Republican governor's bill. Eight Senate Republicans backed it, including Ben Kieckhefer, whom Lombardo later hired to run the governor's office. The same ad attacks Ford over data center tax breaks Lombardo supports.
Obama, Biden and Trump all tried to close the carried interest loophole. In April 2025 Hinson signed a letter asking the House tax chairman to keep it. A hedge fund billionaire has since put $1.5 million into a super PAC boosting her Senate race.
Wisconsin Department of Revenue records show Tiffany had zero net personal state income tax liability for 2006 through 2010 and again in 2019. One of his two companies owed the state nothing for more than a decade, then paid $65.
The debt hit $40 trillion on Wednesday. Trump's second term added $3.8 trillion of it in 19 months. Republicans still call themselves the party of fiscal responsibility.
Repealing Arizona's income tax removes almost $6 billion — a third of the state budget — and, by one analyst's estimate, $900 million a year from cities. Biggs says he'll do it 'without raising any other taxes,' and hasn't said how.
Microsoft alone booked $18.7 billion — the biggest single-year federal tax break any public company has ever recorded. Meanwhile 88 profitable corporations paid zero. ITEP says the 2025 budget bill and the 2017 tax law are part of why.
