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Making Progress In Idaho State Budgeting: The Sequel, Dick Kinney

Richard Kinney

This paper examines Idaho state budgeting decisions for Fiscal Year 2014 and assesses what progress has been made to return to the state’s revenue and spending levels before the hard times in 2009 and 2010 (Kinney 2010; Kinney 2011). After briefly describing Idaho’s population and politics, the report discusses the state’s economic and General Fund revenue contexts for budget decision making. It then analyzes the governor’s budget and the legislature’s appropriations and considers two important potential impacts of these decisions. Progress in Idaho state budgeting continued to be mixed. The state economy generally gained since the recession years although prospects …

How To Raise State Revenue Without Raising Taxes, Christopher R. Bollinger

Issue Brief on Topics Affecting Kentucky’s Economy

A positive relationship exists between educational attainment and earnings, which has been well established in the literature through multiple studies. This, in turn, influences the revenues generated for the state of Kentucky through the personal income tax. We predict even the modest change of increasing Associate’s and Bachelor’s degree holders by 1% would increase revenue by $37 million. Kentucky loses between $300 million and $500 million in state tax revenues every year because our educational attainment is lower than the national average.

Le Mieux? French Healthcare's Toll On Nutritional Decisions, Mehdi Hami

Collection of Engaged Learning

This project involves interviewing French taxpayers in an attempt to see if there is a connection between nutritional decisions and the amount of taxes in France. France has the best healthcare system in the world but also some of the highest taxes. This study takes into consideration the quantitative but also the qualitative data from participants so as to understand the personal effects of taxes upon nutritional decisions.

Henderson News 3.3, Jessica Minihan, Ruth L. Baker, Bede Mitchell

Henderson Library Newsletters (2010-2019)

In This Issue:

• Who's Who at the Library: Charles Skewis
• Putting It All Together in the Learning Commons
• Henderson Library Invites Susan Orlean Delivers 14th Annual Normal Fries Distinguished Lecture
• 2015 Taxes: Do YOU e-file?
• Georgia Poetry Circuit
• Annual Donors' Reception

Tax Season, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Democracy/Government

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Making Progress In Idaho State Budgeting: The Sequel, Dick Kinney

Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper examines Idaho state budgeting decisions for Fiscal Year 2014 and assesses what progress has been made to return to the state’s revenue and spending levels before the hard times in 2009 and 2010 (Kinney 2010; Kinney 2011). After briefly describing Idaho’s population and politics, the report discusses the state’s economic and General Fund revenue contexts for budget decision making. It then analyzes the governor’s budget and the legislature’s appropriations and considers two important potential impacts of these decisions. Progress in Idaho state budgeting continued to be mixed. The state economy generally gained since the recession years although prospects …

Framing Elite Consensus, Ideology And Theory And A Classcrits Response, Athena D. Mutua

Journal Articles

This short paper, really a thought piece, builds upon the examination begun in the Foreword of the ClassCrits VI Symposium which sought to outline a ClassCrits critique of neoclassical economic principles. It argues that neoliberal practices, theory and ideology, built on the scaffold of neoclassical economic ideas, frame an elite consensus that makes elites feel good but which are ethically, intellectually, and structurally problematic for the social well-being of most Americans. It does so, in part, by chronicling a number of recent practices of large corporations, including for example, the practice of inversion. Again, this paper takes as its specific …

Does Labor Supply Respond To Transitory Income? Evidence From The Economic Stimulus Payments Of 2008, David Powell

David Powell

Tax policy is often used to encourage consumer spending in recessions and a growing literature finds evidence that households increase short-term spending in response to receipt of tax rebates. The literature has largely ignored the effect on labor supply as rebates may crowd out labor earnings and households may consume additional leisure. The responsiveness of labor supply to transitory income has been underexplored more broadly so it is difficult to predict this labor supply effect. I exploit the randomized timing of the 2008 economic stimulus payments to study the effects of transitory income on monthly household labor earnings. Rebates can …

Impacto De La Descentralización En Las Finanzas Públicas De Bogotá 2002 2012, Angélica Maria Pedraza Cubillos

Economía

El presente estudio analiza los efectos económicos y políticos que produjo el proceso de descentralización en las finanzas públicas a nivel distrital. La investigación exterioriza las dificultades por las cuales atravesaba Colombia en el siglo XX, época en la cual se redactó la Constitución Política de 199,1 adoptando una medida de descentralización y otorgando una mayor autonomía política, administrativa y fiscal para los entes territoriales, fortaleciendo así la democracia a nivel regional y municipal. El problema de investigación planteado sobre los efectos de la descentralización conlleva a preguntarse si dicho proceso descentralizador contribuyó positivamente a las finanzas públicas de Bogotá. …

Do Payroll Taxes In The United States Create Bunching At Kink Points?, David Powell

David Powell

Much of the literature on labor supply responsiveness to taxes studies the effects of payroll and income taxes together, usually using income tax changes to identify effects. There is less research on how individuals respond to payroll taxes specifically. Given the salience of the payroll tax relative to other income taxes, it is possible that taxpayers respond differentially than income tax elasticities may suggest. Using data from the Social Security Administration, I exploit two recent short-term changes in payroll taxes to study whether labor earnings responded. The Making Work Pay Tax Credit reduced the payroll tax by 6.2 percentage points …