taxes
RGF on the road/post mortem on ABQ City Council victory
This post will be a lot less policy oriented than normal. That’s because as the head of RGF, this week has been VERY busy. It started with a HUGE win at ABQ City Council on Monday night when on a 5-4 vote Council (again)…
Opinion piece: Report on economic development incentives is incomplete
The following appeared in the Santa Fe New Mexican on June 6, 2026. It appeared in other papers across the state. Recently the Legislative Finance Committee produced a report in which (to summarize the findings) they made the…
Taxpayers Need Transparency
"Taxpayers should demand answers from local governments who fail to provide the full financial transparency which state law demands." The following has been adapted from an excerpt of the Frontier Weekly Newsletter…
Wisconsin eventually will opt in to donor bonanza for schools, business leader predicts
No upside to letting credit-spurred donations here flow elsewhere, says Kooyenga Every current candidate for governor of Wisconsin either favors or at least has not yet rejected the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, despite…
Budget Deal Reportedly Earmarks $100M for 1199 and Extends MCO Tax
As Governor Hochul and legislative leaders rush to finalize the overdue state budget, outlines of some healthcare-related deals have begun to emerge from the closed-door negotiations. Those deals reportedly include…
Failure of tax-and-schools deal offers chance to do better
Instead of one-time rebates and school funding patches, tax and spending reform Think of the failure of the $1.8 billion tax-and-spending deal between Gov. Tony Evers and the Legislature as a second chance at better policy.…
The Latest Levy Report Card
"The bottom line - more relief is certainly needed. Voting to reject levies will temporarily prevent the bill from increasing even further, but for more true and lasting relief, we need to start looking at the root cause…
Wisconsin socialists’ dreams outstrip Sweden in price
Everyone will pay Socialism is the song of upcoming summer in Wisconsin as a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist leads the race for the Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination and the rest of the pack sings backup. The…
Socialists’ Milwaukee golden age and the light it sheds now
Socialism is having a politically effervescent moment: From a self-professed socialist winning New York’s mayoralty to leftist members of Wisconsin’s Legislature forming a “Socialist caucus” for the first time since 1931, the…
Opinion piece: New Mexico should take advantage of federal education tax credit
The following appeared in the Santa Fe New Mexican on April 24, 2026. I read state Rep. Raymundo Lara’s recent article in The New Mexican with disbelief (“N.M. should reject ‘education freedom’ farce,” My View, April 10). In…
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