Texas Gov. Rick Perry has picked Chicago as his latest job-recruitment target, running print and Internet advertisements through a weekly business newspaper urging Illinois companies to move to the second-most populous state. In February, radio ads launched by Perry asked...
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry visits with fans prior to the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series NRA 500 on April 13, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Texas to Chicago: Send Us Your Overtaxed, Underemployed Masses
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Storage tanks stand near a Lufkin Industries Inc. Mark II Unitorque electric pumping unit as it removes crude oil from a Fidelity Exploration & Production Co. well outside South Heart, North Dakota.
State Tax Revenue Hit Record in 2012
Here’s more evidence the economy is coming back: State tax collections reached a record in 2012, totaling $794.6 billion. The tally breaks the previous mark of $779.7 billion set in 2008, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. Many states attributed...
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Valentine’s Day Card from Congress: Come See Us About Tax Breaks
If it’s your Valentine’s Day dream to be questioned in public by Reps. Dave Camp, Earl Blumenauer and Vern Buchanan, you’re in luck. The House Ways and Means Committee is holding an open casting call for witnesses at a Feb....
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Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, left, and wife Mary Pat Foster during a walk through at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa.
Chris Christie on His Tax Returns: `Three Words For You Fellas’
Gov. Chris Christie will be celebrating a 26th anniversary of a different sort this week when he releases his 2011 income tax returns: Wife Mary Pat will continue more than two decades of out-earning him. Yet don’t expect New Jersey’s...
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Homes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Fiscal Cliff: $3,446 per Household
American households are facing an average tax increase of $3,446 in 2013, if Congress doesn’t avert the so-called fiscal cliff, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center said in a study released today in Washington. The top 1 percent of households face...
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