The “Fair Share” of Income Taxes

Posted on Jul 27, 2009 in Press The Hartford Courant ran an article today featuring the Yankee Institute’s research ”A Look at Who Pays Connecticut’s Income Tax” by Executive Director Fergus Cullen. “It’s easy to bash the rich and say they aren’t pulling their weight, but we did the math,” said Fergus Cullen, the Yankee Institute’s executive director. “The idea that...
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A Billion Dollars Up in Smoke

Posted on Jul 16, 2009 in Research, Tax and Budget Published July 16, 2009 by the Yankee Institute for Public Policy “There is a danger to the euphoria that surrounds an unexpected source of revenue. This is the first session since I have been here [in 1992] that there seems to be so little concern with the overall increases in spending, and I think the tobacco settlement is part of that. It’s a problem. Legislators have proposals to spend...
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Seven Skepticisms About Stimulus Spending

Posted on Jul 5, 2009 in Press by Fergus Cullen This article originally ran in the Waterbury Republican-American on Sunday, July 5, 2009. Will Rogers might have said, “Half of all money spent by government is wasted. The government just needs to hire a few more bureaucrats to figure out which half.” Unfortunately, less than half of the so-called stimulus money allocated to Connecticut will be spent on things that actually...
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