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Legislator targets public employees for pay cuts in constitutional amendment
Senate Majority Leader Michael Bishop wants the Legislature to put two constitutional amendments before voters which would require an estimated 12,400 public workers in Muskegon County to take a 5 percent pay cut for the next three years and pay 15 percent or 20 percent of their health insurance premiums.
Earnings tax in St. Louis, Kansas City could be challenged in statewide ballot initiative
A campaign is under way to ask Missouri voters to eliminate the city earnings tax in St. Louis and Kansas City.
N.J. voters to decide ballot question restricting tax dollars
Voters will decide in November on a constitutional amendment that would ban the state Legislature from using taxes meant to provide benefits such as unemployment or disability checks for other purposes.
Two measures for ballot
Two new tax measures have been approved for Colorado's 2010 ballot.
Experts Debunk Claim That Tax Measures Would Cost Jobs
The central argument by opponents of Measures 66 and 67, that the measures will cause Oregon to lose jobs, is "without merit," according to experts at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. They said the claim rests on "misleading analysis" and "fatally flawed assumptions."
Another tax reform proposal on the horizon
Forget the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, the 1 percent tax cap and the failed excise tax cut. Next up is "An Act to Implement Tax Relief and Tax Reform," a new tax policy battle Maine people will likely be asked to consider in the spring.
When Voters Disrupt the Tea Party
Here's a story you may have missed because it flies in the face of the dreary conventional wisdom: When advocates of public programs take on the right-wing anti-government crowd directly, the government-haters lose.
Michigan ballot initiative would lower home, auto, business insurance premiums by 20 percent
Michigan voters could decide whether to reduce automobile, home and business insurance premiums by 20 percent if a proposal qualifies for the 2010 statewide ballot.
Legislative session will shape Eyman’s next initiative
Professional initiative promoter Tim Eyman says he’ll be back next year with another ballot measure, and how state lawmakers handle taxes in January will have a lot to do with what he proposes.
Washington’s Tim Eyman and his initiative future
Conservative initiative activist Tim Eyman - Washington state's answer to Oregon's Bill Sizemore - lost his second major initiative in a row when voters rejected his I-1033 proposal. That leads Joel Connelly at Seattlepi.com to ask whether it is the "end of Eymanism," but AP writer Curt Woodward has it right when he says Eyman has now become an established part of the state's political routine.
