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Ann Wagner lined up behind a mid-decade gerrymander that carved up competitive seats and handed her safe new territory across Washington, Gasconade and Crawford counties.
Audio obtained by WKOW has Tom Tiffany telling a voter he hopes to eliminate Wisconsin's income tax after his first budget. Individual and corporate income taxes bring in $13.5 billion — 58% of the state's general fund, which pays for schools, healthcare and property tax relief.
Rob Bresnahan's campaign ad claims he went to Washington and ended Northeastern Pennsylvania's 'rain tax.' The Scranton Times-Tribune called the ad 'misleading at best,' found claims in it false, and reported that it altered a local TV anchor's soundbite to put words in his mouth.
In December 2019, as his company closed a $3 billion deal, Vivek Ramaswamy bought a $420,000 house in West Chester Township and registered to vote in Ohio. Tax experts told Forbes the timing likely saved him about $12 million. Now he wants to abolish Ohio's capital gains tax.
As a state senator, Tom Tiffany sponsored a bill to eliminate Wisconsin's personal property tax, which the state's own fiscal analysts said would push up taxes on the average home. Tiffany has owned a billboard taxed as personal property since 1995, and didn't report it to the state Ethics Commission until 2025.
Byron Donalds's 'hurricane tax' ad says Jolly's homeowners insurance plan would cost $1,000 per family every year. PolitiFact found the study it relies on examined a different 2024 proposal, and the $1,000 a year was a temporary fee in one catastrophic-storm scenario — not a permanent yearly bill.
Greg Abbott is spending $12 million on an ad claiming his opponent 'voted to' raise property taxes 40 times. The Houston Chronicle found she never directly voted to raise property taxes — the 40 votes were votes on seven GOP bills limiting local governments and their amendments, and Abbott's own second ad says only local governments levy property taxes.
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Sarah Sanders' school voucher program ate up more than $309 million of taxpayer money in a single school year without improving a single public school in Arkansas.
Six weeks before the forecast that will shape his next budget, Pillen replaced a third of Nebraska's independent revenue-forecasting board — the first governor to do that in its 40-year history — installing Lou Ann Linehan and Tom Briese, who championed the income tax cuts that have contributed to a third straight budget hole of at least $200 million. Linehan says she doesn't think there is a problem.