Since the pandemic began, the state has been accumulating massive budget surpluses each year began because it is severely underestimating tax collections. That’s a problem.
Bruno Showers
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A decade of tax cuts for the rich (and pretty much nothing for you or me)
No, Arkansas hasn’t already taken care of low earners by providing them with their fair share of tax relief. And no, the tax cuts for rich people that Arkansas passed over the last decade won’t juice the economy. Here are the facts.
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More tax cuts for the rich and wealthy corporations
Arkansas has an upside-down tax system, where Arkansans who earn less pay a larger share of their income in state and local taxes than the wealthy.
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The return of work requirements: a bad idea that won’t work
Instead of helping people get to work and get better paying jobs, work requirements expand bureaucracy, create systems of pointless paperwork for agency staff and program participants to navigate, and ultimately hurt the most vulnerable by unjustly kicking them off the very programs that would help get them back on their feet.