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Heritage Foundation | Cooper and LaTourette’s Budget Is a Major Tax Hike
The budget resolution sponsored by Representatives Jim Cooper (D–TN) and Steve LaTourette (R–OH) breaks this rule. In reality, it is a massive tax hike of nearly $2 trillion, according to Americans for Tax Reform.
Tax Foundation | Massachusetts Tax Carve-Outs Exceed Total Tax Revenues by $4 Billion
A preliminary draft report issued by the Massachusetts Tax Expenditure Commission shows that state tax expenditures are expected to reach $26 billion in 2013, a number $4 billion larger than the projected revenues of $22 billion. In short, as the Massachusetts Department of Revenue put it, "the Commonwealth collects less in revenue than it has chosen to forgo."
