Maine Gov. Janet Mills enters the House chamber for the annual joint State of the Judiciary address on Feb. 25, 2025. (Photo by Jim Neuger/ Maine Morning Star) While Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has ...

As states look to generate more revenue in an inflationary economy, along with the risk of a recession, progressive governors like J.B. Pritzker who advocate for progressive income taxes also support ...

A progressive tax is a system where the tax rate increases as taxable income rises, requiring higher earners to pay a greater ...

Compare tax relief providers that match your needs. Find Tax Experts Reduce your tax burden now A proportional tax is a system that imposes the same tax rate on all taxpayers regardless of their ...

Plenty of well-meaning ideas sound great on paper, but in practice, some of them do more harm than good. Recently, u/nealie_20 asked, "What's a 'progressive' idea that's actually regressive when ...

Local property taxes are commonly regarded as regressive, but the two dominant (and competing) views of the property tax would disagree. Under the capital-tax view, the national element of the tax is ...

Why do progressives love regressive taxes? The news that, as of July 1, several cities in very liberal Alameda County have increased their sales tax rate to a staggering 10.75%, got us thinking about ...