99 Percent of New Yorkers Lose Under Bush “Tax and Borrow” Fiscal Policies
June 28, 2006. FPI's release of a new report by Citizens for Tax Justice with state-specific data.
Time to trim pensions of city workers?
June 11, 2006. Point/counterpoint on public pension policy in the New York Daily News. No. Municipal workers deserve a decent retirement. By James A. Parrott, Fiscal Policy Institute While Mayor Bloomberg is taking a prudent step in establishing a retiree health trust fund, he has taken a wrong turn in seeking to reduce pension benefits for newly hired city workers. Many large corporations, from United Airlines to Delphi to IBM, have destroyed or diluted the promises they made to their employees about retirement security. Some [...]
Sorting Estate Tax Fact From Fiction
June 5, 2006. New data from the IRS shows that only 1.6% of New York estates (and only 1.2% of all estates nationally) were subject to taxation in 2004. Press release including a fact sheet from Citizens for Tax Justice.