EDITORIAL: Tax Increase Wrong Way to Balance California Budget.

The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  July 2, 2002 ;     404 words ......Taxpayers had dodged yet another state tax increase -- at least as this was being written...Legislature, the Assembly hadn't approved a tax increase passed in the Senate. Democratic intransigence over the tax increase meant the Legislature, once again...

Senate to float sales tax increase.

Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA);  April 27, 2006 ;     561 words ......half-percent sales tax increase today in what many...Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's concerns that...radio show Tuesday. Kaine repeatedly has expressed...viability of a gas-tax increase . The timing of...cent-per-gallon tax increase on fuel. Sen. Frederick...wished aloud that ...

Kaine May Float Gas-Tax Increase to Offset Shortfall

The Washington Post;  April 30, 2008 ;     591 words ...Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) said Tuesday that he...interview on WTOP (103.5 FM), Kaine said the increase may be...issues are on the table," Kaine said. "We are talking about a gas tax." Kaine said he will call the General...finances road maintenance. Kaine said he expects to ...

Ex-mayor promoting tax increase

Dayton Daily News;  April 13, 2006 ;     315 words ......support the city's proposed 0.5 percent tax increase on the May 2 ballot. Assistant City...residents throughout the city to support the tax increase. Early one Thursday morning, Smith was...doughnuts and reasons to vote "yes" for the tax increase to the mall walkers. She greeted ...

Florida Lawmakers Prepare for Big Tax Increase.

The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  January 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ......quietly presiding over Florida's biggest tax increase in more than a decade. The $133 million automatic tax increase is required by state law to replenish...jobless claims in recent years. The tax increase nearly triples the amount of state...

District 21 provides plan behind tax increase request.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  January 17, 2003 ;     365 words ......cent per $100 of assessed valuation tax increase on April 1 election ballots Thursday...a $9 million shortfall. Without the tax increase, board members said, teaching positions...for spending cuts in event of a failed tax increase will be finalized in March. The board...

Oregon House Works on Third Version of Temporary Income Tax Increase Bill.

The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  September 11, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Ore.--The idea of a temporary income tax increase to help balance the state budget clings...rejected two versions of a $407 million tax increase Tuesday night but sent one back to committee...work. The surviving bill would send any tax increase to voters. The one that failed would...

Candidates Outline Ideas For Transit; Va. Governor Hopefuls Oppose Gas Tax...

The Washington Post;  September 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ......prominently in the contest next year. While Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) and Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore (R) have not...purposes other than transportation, a fact that Kilgore and Kaine said diminished public confidence that money earmarked...credibility problem" when it comes to transportation projects, ...

Police, fire seeking larger tax increase

The Gazette;  August 7, 2001 ;     502 words ......departments, already seeking the largest sales tax increase of any city issue proposed for the November...the proposed 0.35 percent city sales-tax increase that has been discussed as an item in...that would be generated by the proposed tax increase each year is not enough to improve ...

Revisiting budget could cause repeal of Robinson's tax increase

Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  January 17, 2008 ;     473 words ......officials to reconsider an approved tax increase when they reopen the budget in coming...might allow the township to eliminate a tax increase aimed at raising nearly $1 million...two commissioners to vote against the tax increase last month. The budget was balanced...

Tobacco Settlement Makes Cigarette Tax Increase More Difficult

Washington Informer;  December 10, 1998 ;     388 words ......12-10-1998 Tobacco Settlement Makes Cigarette Tax Increase More Difficult Anti-smoking groups in...were hoping to push through a $1.50 tax increase on cigarettes, out now find themselves...seem a dead issue. Supporters of the tax increase say that they are very close to having...

GOP targets tax increase: New leaders to make issue...

The Washington Times;  March 27, 1996 ;     501 words ......vowed to fight a proposed real estate tax increase and said they intend to make the issue...the party has said little about the tax increase thus far but warned of a full assault...spending before giving consideration to a tax increase. As first vice president of the Fairfax...

Library officials plan to campaign hard West Chicago needs tax increase to...

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  September 27, 2000 ;     346 words ...After failing to obtain a tax increase through a referendum in March...to help campaign for the Nov. 7 tax increase vote. They wanted to do it quietly...initiative failed 1,194 to 1,669. The tax increase would cost the owner of a $150...

DECISION ON TAX INCREASE WILL NOT BE AN EASY ONE; GUILFORD COUNTY MANAGER...

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  April 26, 2001 ;     645 words ......county administrators might propose a tax increase, plans to ask fellow commissioners tonight...doesn't yet know whether he'll ask for a tax increase in the county's 2001-02 budget, which...think (Cotten's) going to request a tax increase; I don't think there's any question...

Be Honest: It's a Tax Increase

The Washington Post;  December 8, 2002 ;     145 words ......to extremes to avoid using the words "tax increase" ["Democrats and the Bush Tax Cut...affected would pay more in taxes. That is a tax increase. But to Mr. Sperling, it's a "tweaking...still, a "freeze." But never is it a tax increase. Mr. Sperling said that his former boss...