Budget & Revenue
Building Opportunity: A Toolkit for Virginia’s Future
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More Tax Cuts for the Rich: A Familiar, Failed Recipe
When it comes to tax cuts for the rich, the promised economic growth often fails to materialize. This time around, we should ask lawmakers to choose a different path.
Let’s Take a Look at Where Government Aid is Really Going
As we move forward to proposed tax reform and budgets – both state and federal – an equal level of scrutiny ought to be applied both to tax breaks and to how we choose to invest in communities.
Building Opportunity: A Toolkit for Virginia’s Future
We all want to believe that if we meet our obligations and if we work hard at the things we choose to do that we’ll be rewarded with opportunities to get ahead.
How to Address Rural Areas’ Economic Woes? Smart Investments, Not Tax Cuts
How can Virginia spur rural economic development? That’s the question on a lot of minds these days – and with good reason.
Will Wittman and Comstock Stand Up for the Federal Employees in their Districts?
The proposed House budget could mean trouble for federal employees and their families. And that’s particularly bad news for Virginia, as it has the second highest number of federal civilian employees of any state, behind California.
House Budget Would Harm Families and Communities, even in Loudoun County
Loudoun County may be the nation’s highest income county, but that designation masks real problems low-income people there face. And if Congress has its way, the federal budget will make their situation even worse.
A Guide to Recent Tax Proposals
As part of our work to inform ongoing debates in Virginia around fiscal policy issues, we took a look at some recent tax proposals at the center of current debates – from candidates for Governor and from the most recent General Assembly session.
Demonstrated Harm
Reduced state investment in public schools in Virginia since the recession has significantly impacted day-to-day operations in schools all over the Commonwealth. Schools have been forced to eliminate teachers and instructional specialists, place increasing responsibilities on teachers, reduce critical support positions such as nurses and school counselors, not keep pace with the changing language needs of students, eliminate student clubs and shorten afterschool programs, and allow facilities to deteriorate and fall into disrepair.