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.
Records obtained by Nebraska Public Media show what Pillen's 5% squeeze looks like on the ground: a DeafBlind support program discontinued, museum admission raised on kids, and a proposal to make low-income seniors and disabled Nebraskans start paying property tax.
An ethics watchdog said in 2022 that Mann 'stands to benefit significantly' from the opportunity zone tax break he had signed on to extend. Four years later he is still the manager of one opportunity zone fund and a member of two more — and he voted for the bill that made the break permanent.
Lucid cut about 700 jobs at its Casa Grande plant in June. In August, Ciscomani hosted Mike Johnson and Scott Bessent in that same town for a roundtable on how well the tax law is working.
A legislative panel just approved a study of a $100 million state tax credit for private school and homeschool families — on top of the up to $379 million Arkansas has approved for vouchers this year, and on top of the new federal one. Even a conservative school choice group says no.
Hidden in Trump's budget bill is the first federal private school voucher in American history — a tax credit that pays donors back 100 cents on the dollar, with no ceiling on the total. Congress's scorekeepers say $26 billion. One analysis says $51 billion a year.
In 2023 he was one of 71 Republicans who voted against the bipartisan debt deal for not cutting enough. In 2025 he voted for the biggest deficit increase in years. In July 2026 he introduced the Super Pay-As-You-Go Act.
Paxton's 'Protecting the Texas Promise' agenda is a stack of new tax deductions. You have to itemize your taxes to claim the deductions — and only about 10% of taxpayers do. Even conservative economists say it will push prices up, not down.