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06/18/2026
🏡 Our analysis of Florida's "Save our Homes from Excessive Property Taxes" proposal:
The Real November Ballot Question: What Price Are Floridians Willing to Pay to “Save Their Homes?” While a proposal to phase down property taxes on the primary residences of Florida homeowners may grab headlines, it risks severely undermining the competitiveness of Florida’s overall tax structure and leaving the state worse off.
06/18/2026
Wealth taxes make states less competitive, increase revenue volatility, discourage investment, and risk accelerating outmigration of talent and capital. Many top-earners are already leaving high-tax states for Florida, North Carolina, and other low-tax jurisdictions.
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Targeting High Earners is Misguided and Will Worsen States’ Fiscal Positions High-tax states are targeting high earners and the wealthy with new or increased tax burdens, hurting the states' overall competitiveness.
06/17/2026
Only two states raise enough revenue from road taxes to fully cover their highway spending: Maryland and New Jersey.
Because road use fees fall short of fully funding roadway systems in most states, governments must transfer revenues from other sources to road expenditures.
A better long-term fix would be to shift funding from increasingly inappropriate proxies for road use to a direct user fee on each mile driven, a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax.
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Americans spend 7.1 billion hours a year on tax paperwork—equal to 3.4 million full-time workers.
06/16/2026
Twenty-three states have reduced their top marginal income tax rates since 2021. Both the average and median top rate on wage income are now 5.0 percent, with recent cuts accelerating a trend of rate reductions dating back three decades.
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💡 Millions of Americans, along with significant amounts of income and economic activity, are moving from high-tax states to those with more competitive tax systems and lower overall costs of living.
06/15/2026
Explore the IRS inflation-adjusted 2026 tax brackets, for which taxpayers will file tax returns in early 2027.
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06/15/2026
In recent years, European Union countries have experienced high inflation—driven by supply factors, demand, and imported inflation—that has significantly altered the economic landscape. This shift from low to high prices has profound implications, especially from a fiscal perspective.
Our research focuses on the inflationary environment’s fiscal consequences. Read more: https://hubs.ly/Q04lf9Sw0
06/15/2026
In 2022, incomes for the bottom 80 percent of earners were slightly lower after taxes and transfers compared to 2020 and 2021, driven by expiring pandemic-era policies.
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06/14/2026
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