Comer's D.C. Taxing Authority Review Act would require an act of Congress before the District could change any tax or fee — up or down. He told the markup it was aimed at the progressives D.C. voters had just elected. An $81 billion delivery company that had just lost a 20-cent fee fight wrote in to back it, and Comer put its letter in the record.
The state's own economists put a number on what Amendment 3 would take from Florida's cities and counties. Donalds, the amendment's loudest champion, is now attacking the estimators — without offering a number of his own.
Arkansas's self-appointed debt hawk wants a commission to bring deficits down to 3% of GDP. His own press release celebrating the bill that added $3.4 trillion runs about five hundred words and never mentions the deficit once.
The Senate came back with a bill that added about $1 trillion more to the deficit than the House version Burchett had reluctantly voted for. He went to the White House, got a signed souvenir, and voted for it the next day.
A November ballot measure would charge California's 200-plus billionaires a one-time 5% tax to backfill federal health care cuts. Kiley drafted federal legislation to block it after reports that Zuckerberg and Google's founders might leave.
The Speaker of the House headlined a Harding campaign breakfast built around one small, temporary tax break from Trump's budget bill. The same bill could cost Nebraska up to $4 billion in Medicaid, and 18,000 fewer Nebraskans are getting food assistance than a year earlier.
Idaho cut most state agencies 4% this year and 5% next year, partly to absorb a $155 million hole created by matching Trump's federal tax cuts. In July, Brad Little pointed at the $250 million left over and said he won't be putting any of it back.
Garbarino spent months as one of five Republicans holding Trump's budget bill hostage over the SALT deduction. When it finally came to a vote at 6:54 a.m., he was asleep in the back.
Charles built a campaign ad around raising Maine's homestead exemption. More than 327,000 Mainers claim that break every year. His own town says he hasn't since moving back — and his campaign still can't say how he'd pay to expand it.