6-29-2022 AIP

This morning’s edition of USA Today reports “Most businesses want tax-free shopping online, CFO’s say.” Unfortunately, the obvious conclusion is misleading: a moratorium does not mean tax-free.

North Carolina Citizens for a Sound Economy today released Issue Number 4 of its ongoing effort to educate elected officials and citizens on why a government-run lottery is bad business and public policy. Lottery funds do not always go toward education.

"You guys have some pretty good stuff here" If we let don't let drug companies charge for their medicine, we'll all end up taking aspirin." -- Oregon Rep. Cedric Hayden

Salem, OR - Immediately following the Senate's passage of SB 660, the "2001 Internet Tax Ban," Oregon Citizens for a Sound Economy conducted its second annual CSE Day at the Capitol. The event brought over 200 grassroots activists from across the state to the capitol for good-old fashioned grassroots lobbying on key CSE issues including Internet taxes, environment, tax cuts, prescription drugs and education.

Salem, OR - Sometimes politicians forget whose money they are spending at the State Capitol. Over 200 Oregon Citizens for a Sound Economy (OR CSE) activists stormed the Capitol on April 19th to remind their legislators exactly where state revenues come from. One of the chief concerns of these citizens was fighting legislative plans to withhold their constitutionally protected income tax “kicker” refund.

Salem, OR - More than 200 Oregon CSE activists traveled from across the state to Salem to lobby their legislators in support of more school choice. In particular, they urged policymakers to support revisions to strengthen the state’s charter school law, as well as to support the Oregon School Accountability Enhancement Act, which would give local school districts the flexibility to opt out of the state’s current “one-size-fits-all” accountability system and choose another nationally recognized test.

As printed in The Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2001.

From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Europe, 04/23/2001 While the attention of U.S. taxpayers has been consumed by the dreaded tax-filing deadline of April 15 and the debate over the Bush tax plan, an international bureaucracy has been actively threatening the freedom and prosperity of the United States and others around the world. This time it's the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that's hard at work trying to make sure no country's taxes are too low.