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	Tax revolt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A tax revolt is a political struggle to repeal, limit, or roll back a government-imposed tax.
		To some extent, the tax revolt also fell victim to an effective counterattack by municipal reformers, government officials, and the holders of municipal debt such as bondholders and bankers who formed so-called "Pay Your Taxes" campaigns throughout the country.
		A second wave of tax revolts began in the late 1970s and were particularly popular in the West.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tax_revolt (627 words)

	Oregon tax revolt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tax revolt, carried out in large part by a series of citizen's initiatives and referenda, has reshaped the debate about taxes and public services in Oregon.
		The tax revolt manifested itself in a series of budget battles in the Oregon Legislature about school funding, the Oregon Health Plan, and other spending priorities during the late 1990s.
		Opponents of the tax revolt argue that passing tax decreases via ballot measure leads to short-sighted policy making, in which voters are enticed to vote with the revolt by lower tax bills and without thinking about the budget problems caused by reduced revenues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oregon_tax_revolt (854 words)

	A Texas-Sized Tax Revolt
		Tax collectors are reaping giant windfalls from the national housing boom, as the average property tax on an American home has climbed to just shy of $3,000 a year.
		Texas is the epicenter of this backlash, because property tax bills in some localities have doubled in seven years, according to the taxpayer group Americans for Prosperity.
		If the politicians in Austin were then to adopt a tax limitation law capping taxes at population growth plus inflation -- which nine of 10 Republican voters in the state just said they favor -- another 20 cents could be trimmed from property tax assessments within two to five years.
	www.katycitizens.org /index_files/Page14853.htm (790 words)

	tax_revolt
		The tax revolt, in tandem with sustained partisan conflict over racial policies — and over social/moral issues ranging from gun control to school prayer to abortion — catalyzed the mobilization of a conservative presidential majority.
		The tax revolt provided, in addition, a new means for conservatives to identify and define an "establishment" attempting to thwart the populist will of the electorate—an establishment closely linked to the pro-civil rights establishment demonized by Wallace and Nixon in 1968 and in 1972.
		The tax revolt provided conservatism with a powerful internal coherence, shaping an anti-government ethic, and firmly establishing new grounds for the disaffection of white working- and middle-class voters from their traditional Democratic roots.
	members.tripod.com /~anthony_giacalone/tax_revolt.html (650 words)

	The Tax Foundation - Where's the Tax Revolt?
		Thus, even though they face a marginal tax rate approaching 40 percent, their incomes may well be rising fast enough to guarantee a satisfactory year-to-year increase in living standards.
		Tax cuts are part and parcel of the political debate, and President Clinton’s influence cannot be denied.
		When that happens they may again discover their tax revolt roots.
	www.taxfoundation.org /press/show/193.html (986 words)

	TAP: Vol 9, Iss. 38. A Liberal Tax Revolt. Joshua Micah Marshall. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Consider how different the politics of the flat tax would be if, instead of the current tax code, we had a tax code with minimal deductions and five brackets at 10 percent, 20 percent, 26 percent, 32 percent, and 34 percent.
		Tax simplicity should be more than a rhetorical dodge Democrats use to outflank the Republicans in their drive for the flat tax.
		Of all the statistics that tax policy analysts quote today, none is more significant than this one: 72 percent of American households pay more of their income in payroll taxes than income taxes.
	www.prospect.org /print/V9/38/marshall-j.html (3722 words)

	This is Not a Fuel Crisis, it's a Tax Revolt! [Free Republic]
		This is Not a Fuel Crisis, it's a Tax Revolt!
		Taxes on "petrol" in England are the worst in Europe...
		I've seen some articles on LewRockwell that claim we had a second tax revolt in 1861, that the War Between the States, or the War of Northern Agression as some refer to it down south, was caused by the imposition of high tariffs on imported manufactured goods.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39c157187f39.htm (3127 words)

	'Queen Christine' and the Tax Revolt (Seattle Weekly)
		Tax cutters call the Democratic governor "Queen Christine," and their latest weapon against her rule is Initiative 912, an effort to roll back the gas tax enacted by the Legislature this year with prodding by Gregoire.
		About $5.5 billion is raised by a 9.5-cent incremental increase in the gas tax, bringing the state revenue per gallon of fuel to 37.5 cents in 2008.
		Contrary to popular wisdom, the tax revolt is not confined to the rural areas of Eastern Washington.
	www.seattleweekly.com /news/0533/050817_news_taxrevolt.php (2123 words)

	The Tax Revolt Began with the Initiative -- Washington Times
		The good news is that the tax revolt remains as popular now as it was 20 years ago.
		A second means of institutionalizing the tax revolt is the effort by Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) to extend its "no tax pledge" - a promise by lawmakers to vote against any new taxes or tax increases - to the states.
		Liberals have been hoping for years that the tax revolt would slowly fade away, but in fact the conditions are building for another taxpayer blow-up.
	www.initiativefortexas.org /taxrevolt.htm (804 words)

	Tennessee Tax Revolt
		NOBODY likes to pay more taxes but when the increase is approved by the taxpayers in a referendum then the people who will have their pay reduced by the tax increase at least had a chance to have their say.
		TN Taxpayers will no longer be able to petition county government to place the wheel tax on the ballot and county commissions will only require a simple majority to pass or increase the wheel tax instead of the 2/3 majority now required.
		TTR supports referendums on all tax increases, not because they prevent tax increases but because they give those who pay the taxes an opportunity to give their consent and "consent of the governed" is what the American Experiment is all about.
	www.tntaxrevolt.org (4303 words)

	The Trickle-Down Tax Revolt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The federal tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 left a big hole in the federal budget, meaning that the feds can’t or won’t fully fund programs like No Child Left Behind, which requires schools to take sometimes expensive steps to improve themselves.
		So as local property taxes pay for more, and as we continue to segregate more by income, the quality of the services we get -- schools, roads, parks, police, fire -- increasingly depends on the income level of the town we live in.
		But as they rise, a tax revolt is brewing, because these families just can’t afford it.
	www.robertreich.org /reich/20041027.asp (468 words)

	Tax revolt - Greater Baton Rouge Business Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The more expensive their house, the more they can deduct, and the higher their tax bracket, the more each dollar of deduction is worth.
		According to a recent Brookings Institution study, taxpayers in the lowest fifth of incomes who claim the deduction cut their tax bills on average by 0.3%; in the top fifth, filers save 4.9%.
		Using the same set of assumptions as before, under the reformed deduction a family in a $100,000 house would be unaffected, and the guy in the $50,000 house would actually gain $2,000 in buying power, because the rate on his deduction would rise from his bracket's 10% to the reform's flat 15%.
	www.businessreport.com /newsDetail.cfm?aid=7335 (1139 words)

	San Diego Magazine - covering San Diego entertainment, fashion, events and news. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Instead of filing complex income tax returns every year, households would file a single form detailing their members, and retail businesses would file a simple form showing the amount of tax due on goods sold.
		The panel is charged with identifying tax reform options that are revenue-neutral and reduce the costs and administrative burdens of compliance, share the burdens and benefits of the federal tax structure in a progressive manner and promote longterm economic growth and job creation.
		That’s why “the Fair Tax initiative is opposed by the ‘Gucci Gulch,’ the lobbyists who know the tax code and how to take advantage of loopholes for their clients,” Buchholz says.
	www.sandiegomag.com /issues/august05/business0805.asp (1303 words)

	"Car Tax" Revolt has Familiar Ring of Taxpayer Appeal
		While the VLF is "in lieu" of a property tax, vehicles are taxed at double the rate of property subject to Proposition 13.
		Further, unlike the sales tax, which is paid in dribs and drabs on purchases, and the income tax, which is generally paid through withholding, the car tax is paid in a lump sum, straining resources at time of payment.
		This was similar to the inheritance tax and the property tax (which is paid in two installments for those not paying the tax through their mortgage).
	www.caltax.org /comment/may98-2.htm (567 words)

	Tax Revolt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The business staged a protest of Montgomery County's merchants' capital tax, also known as the inventory tax, which is levied on unsold retail inventory held on Jan. 1.
		The revolt dramatized their frustration with the inventory tax, a second cousin to the business, professional and occupational license tax on gross receipts.
		The food tax cut was at the top of the General Assembly's agenda in 1999.
	www.virginiabusiness.com /magazine/yr1999/may99/cover.html (2442 words)

	The great tax revolt of 1994 - Cover Story Reason - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Despite the hyperbole, hysteria, and nearly $1 million spent to defeat the initiative (versus less than $300,000 spent by taxpayer groups in support), Amendment I was approved by 54 percent of the voters in November 1992.
		Tax increases have been stopped dead in their tracks.
		Brown proposes a 6-percent investment tax credit as the surest way "to keep and expand jobs in California." He predicts that the tax credit will "generate additional income, property, and sales tax revenue for the state"--and no, that's not Jack Kemp talking.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_n5_v26/ai_16101039 (869 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'View tax' triggers revolt in rural N.H. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bischoff and other Orford residents bitterly call that a "view tax," and they are leading a revolt against it that has gained support in many rural towns in New Hampshire.
		State officials say there is no such thing as a "view tax" — it is a "view factor," and it has always been a part of property assessments.
		The state has no general income or sales tax, and the resulting high property taxes are hardest on those who are land-rich but income-poor.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-10-31-view-tax_x.htm?csp=34 (877 words)

	The Washington State Tax Revolt
		The clamor has even captured some Republicans: A celebrated memo from a GOP legislative strategist warned that voters no longer believe that their taxes are too high.
		Initiative 695 appeared on the Nov. 2 ballot to virtually abolish Washington’s car registration tax and require all future tax increases to be submitted for approval by the voters.
		Despite the united opposition of the political, big business, labor, media and government establishments of Washington state, a grass-roots effort succeeded decisively in obliterating one of the most abusive taxes on the books, as well as restoring the power to tax to the direct control of the people.
	republican.sen.ca.gov /web/mcclintock/article_detail.asp?PID=2 (577 words)

	Iowans for Tax Relief
		David Stanley forms Iowans for Tax Relief at the height of the tax revolt.
		Iowans for Tax Relief lobbies for and wins a major victory for Iowa taxpayers when the state's top income tax rate is reduced from 13% to 9.98%.
		State income tax is cut by 10% across the board and the inheritance tax is repealed for lineal ascendants and descendents.
	www.taxrelief.org /history.htm (116 words)

	A Tax Revolt Hits the Road in Europe
		Across Europe, government taxes make up the bulk of what drivers pay at the pump and add to the pain of crude oil prices, still at their highest in a decade.
		A fuel tax that generates revenues that are used exclusively to fund roads is the least distorting of all the state and nationally imposed taxes, since the primary users of the government-supplied roads are the ones who pay the tax.
		Governments could tax tires, too, but that would lead to poorer consumers’ deciding to drive on worn-out tires, which would increase the number of accidents, especially of poor people.
	www.lewrockwell.com /north/north16.html (1064 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 08/11/2004 : Tax Revolt
		Tax revenues haven't gone down; in fact, they're the highest in the city's history.
		Under a TIF plan, a developer pays property taxes for the value of his land before development.
		Later, if the property is appraised at a higher value, the owner continues to pay taxes on the old value of the property, Molony says.
	www.citybeat.com /2004-08-11/news.shtml (1392 words)

	Tax Revolt!
		And, although the word “tax” only appears on one document on candidate Howard Dean’s web site, he has made his stance on taxes clear: he wants to repeal President Bush’s tax cuts, raising taxes on just about everyone with a job—from the Wall Street tycoon Clark would tax, to the person who shines his shoes.
		Citizen-activists in Tennessee, the home state of Dean-endorser Al Gore, set up Tennessee Tax Revolt in response to the push for an income tax in the state, and successfully prevented former Republican Gov. Sundquist from enacting such a tax.
		A similarly magnificent triumph for taxpayers may be coming on February 3rd in Oregon where a $1.1 billion tax hike has been brought before the voters, thanks to the hard work of Oregon Citizens for a Sound Economy and the Taxpayer Defense Fund.
	www.cse.org /informed/issues_template.php?issue_id=1654 (1037 words)

	California's historic tax revolt Human Events - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There are relatively few books about the late 1970s tax revolt that are sympathetic to the goals of the tax reformers.
		With the exception of Alvin Rabushka and Pauline Ryan's The Tax Revolt, most books that deal with Proposition 13 such as Robert Kuttner's Revolt of the Haves to Peter Schrag's Paradise Lost range from skeptical to downright hostile.
		"Death and taxes may be inevitable, but being taxed to death is not inevitable." More importantly, this event eventually led to a tax revolt that would change the fiscal history of California and the rest of the country.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200307/ai_n9244891 (739 words)

	TomPaine.com - The Trickle-Down Tax Revolt
		Based on property tax, that means your level of government service is based on your income, since sprawl has segregated America according to wealth.
		Property taxes across America have been soaring—according to Deloitte and Touche, by an average of more than 10 percent between 2001 and 2003 alone.
		So as local property taxes pay for more, and as we continue to segregate more by income, the quality of the services we get—schools, roads, parks, police, fire—increasingly depends on the income level of the town we live in.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/the_trickledown_tax_revolt.php (574 words)

	DSCC : Tax plan revolt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Schumer said the proposal would force New Yorkers to pay an additional $12 billion in federal taxes if they could no longer deduct state and local taxes: "It is a dagger to the heart of the people of New York." Schumer, presumably, will use his position on the Senate Finance Committee to make that point.
		The panel would eliminate the alternative-minimum tax, which Congress enacted in 1969 to prevent the very wealthy from avoiding paying taxes but never indexed for inflation.
		Better to index the AMT for inflation retroactively and return the tax to its original purpose of ensuring that the super-rich pay their share of taxes.
	www.dscc.org /news/latest/20051021_taxrevolt (391 words)

	Coming soon: A tax revolt like no other - Jubak's Journal - MSN Money
		The California tax revolt of the 1970s was set off by rising home values -- and unresponsive local governments.
		The AMT (alternative minimum tax), originally designed to make sure that rich taxpayers paid something in income tax, has started to devour the same middle-income taxpayers who are getting socked with the biggest increases in property tax bills.
		You can see how soaring real-estate taxes and the increasing bite from the AMT might be enough to fuel a tax revolt or two.
	moneycentral.msn.com /content/P119389.asp (1056 words)

	California Tax and Expenditure Limitation ["HOT TOPIC" - IGS Library/UC Berkeley]
		In the 1970s soaring property values in California led to dramatic increases in property taxes, prompting a tax revolt that resulted in the passage of Proposition 13* in the June 1978 California primary.
		XIIIA of the California Constitution) is widely regarded as the most far reaching of California's many initiative measures, and is the most enduring artifact of the California tax revolt of the late 1970s.
		An intergovernmental fiscal realignment took shape which, in broad strokes, gave property tax revenues mostly to cities and counties, and funded school districts mostly from state general funds instead of the property tax.
	www.igs.berkeley.edu /library/htTaxSpendLimits2003.html (2417 words)

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