Posted tagged ‘Iowa Fiscal Partnership’
February 21, 2012
Using stimulus funds bridged a gap in revenues and kept Iowa out of a race to the bottom.
Categories: Budget and Tax, Economic Opportunity, Organization
Tags: revenue, budget, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, economy, Iowa Policy Project, American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, Governor Chet Culver, Mike Owen, Des Moines Register, ARRA, stimulus
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February 15, 2012
The indefensible thing in the 2012 legislative session would be to make significant commercial property tax changes without fixing abuses of TIF.
Categories: Budget and Tax, Organization
Tags: Business Record, Des Moines City Manager Rick Clark, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, Kent Darr, Mike Owen, Peter Fisher, property taxes, tax-increment financing, TIF
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February 8, 2012
The budgeting decisions of last year ought to be viewed in context.
Categories: Budget and Tax, Economic Opportunity, Organization
Tags: American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, Andrew Cannon, ARRA, budget, economy, education, environment, health insurance, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, revenue stability, work supports, working families
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January 30, 2012
What the “State Business Tax Climate Index” offers is, at its core, an indefensible mish-mash of “Stuff the Tax Foundation Doesn’t Like,” which should be the title.
Categories: Budget and Tax, Economic Opportunity, Organization
Tags: budget, business taxes, corporate taxes, Economic Policy Institute, Grading Places, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, State Business Climate Index, tax credit, tax fairness, Tax Foundation, tax reform
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January 23, 2012
Two recent reports highlight Iowa’s success in extending health insurance coverage to children.
Categories: Budget and Tax, Economic Opportunity, Organization
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Andrew Cannon, children's health insurance, CHIP, economy, hawk-i, health care, health insurance, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, medicaid, uninsurance
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January 19, 2012
Another public TIF reform meeting is scheduled Saturday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Johnson County Health and Human Services Building, 855 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City.
Categories: Budget and Tax, Economic Opportunity, Organization
Tags: Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, Peter Fisher, tax credit, tax-increment financing, TIF
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January 12, 2012
Economic development types have become addicted to the idea that they can use TIF to do many things without regard to the impacts on neighbors or even the real purpose of TIF.
Categories: Budget and Tax, Economic Opportunity, Organization
Tags: Coralville, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, Mike Owen, Peter Fisher, Rep. Tom Sands, Sen. Joe Bolkcom, subsidies, tax-increment financing, TIF
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January 6, 2012
Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, and Rep. Tom Sands, R-Wapello, hosted the Coralville forum about an issue growing in attention following the release of Peter Fisher’s report for the Iowa Fiscal Partnership.
Categories: Budget and Tax, Economic Opportunity, Organization
Tags: Coralville, Iowa City, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, Peter Fisher, property taxes, Rep. Tom Sands, Sen. Joe Bolkcom, tax-increment financing, TIF
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November 22, 2011
As we discuss and debate our fiscal future, proposals should be weighed by their effects on people, not with how well the line up with some ideological ideal.
Categories: Budget and Tax, Economic Opportunity, Organization
Tags: American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, Andrew Cannon, budget, food assistance, food insecurity, food security, food stamps, Iowa Fiscal Partnership, Iowa Policy Project, poverty, Thanksgiving
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