YESTERDAY’S Budget misses the point. The wrong question is answered. Tax cuts are super, modest as they are in the context of recent rises and should help at the margin, but the real question of how the UK re-creates its long-lost private sector dynamism requires a much more holistic and longer-term answer, rather than Jeremy […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – The Tennessee Legislature’s debate on education savings accounts will continue Wednesday when competing versions of the bill are heard by the Senate Education Committee and House Education Administration. Both versions involve a significant number of the ESAs, which will start at $7,075 and can be […]
The state that wants to set aside tens of billions of dollars for slavery reparations can’t get its default budget under control. The prospect of a budget shortfall in the Golden State is certainly nothing new. Despite levying some of the highest taxes in the nation and being home to some of the most productive, […]
Image Credit: Google Earth The Tennessee Conservative Staff – Continued issues within the Shelby County Clerk’s Office have put the budget for the entire county at risk. According to county officials, Clerk Wanda Halbert has filed at least three months’ worth of revenue reports that are inaccurate. County commissioners say this could affect their plans […]
Image Credit: Gov. Bill Lee / Facebook The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – After several years of rapidly increasing spending and tax collections, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has proposed a budget that would spend nearly $10 billion less next year. That includes $52.6 billion in spending with $25.4 billion from the state and $19.8 […]
Protect Tennessee’s Borders RALLY – March 20th, Nashville, TN • Bill Would Put Violent Illegal Immigrants In Jail for Life • Watson’s Bill Let’s Unvaccinated Adopt/Foster • Lee’s Voucher Bill Language Revealed • And 4 Other Stories in the BIG 7! Sign up to attend the “Protect Tennessee’s Borders Rally” HERE! Like what we’re doing […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Jason Vaughn] – Yesterday, in the Tennessee House Finance, Ways and Means Subcommittee a bill seeking to add an explicit, standing provision to the Age Appropriate Materials Act of 2022 that would give parents the ability to file claims to enforce the Act was placed behind the budget. […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee’s January tax collections were $98 million less than budgeted but up $15.8 million from 2023. That puts the state $378 million behind its budgeted total for the first half of the fiscal year and $104 million short of collections from the first six months […]
President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a handful of left-leaning Republicans (led by Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, of course) have just agreed to a near $100 billion foreign aid bill for Israel and Ukraine. Is the spending addiction so severe that there is NOTHING […]
Image Credit: Gov. Bill Lee / Facebook The Tennessee Conservative Staff – State officials are refusing to provide information regarding Governor Bill Lee’s decision to include a $1.6 billion tax cut and refund for businesses. According to Finance Commissioner Jim Bryson, Governor Lee included the tax refunds, plus an additional $400 million recurring franchise tax […]
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