Category Archives: Taxes

Mileage-Based User Fees – Oregon Rethinks its Program

Posted on September 6, 2012 by matt ohern

(This article first ran in Surface Transportation Innovations, a publication of the Reason Foundation.)Mention to a journalist charges based on vehicle miles of travel (VMT) or the more recent term, mileage-based user fees (MBUFs), and the immediate assumption is “a … Continue reading →

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Virginians Work 204 Days Just to Pay for Government

Posted on July 26, 2012 by matt ohern

Every year, the Americans for Tax Reform Foundation and the Cost of Government Center release the Cost of Government Day Report.  The report measures the calendar day until which the average American must work to pay off their share of … Continue reading →

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Overtaxed Marylanders Flee to Virginia

Posted on July 12, 2012 by matt ohern

Our high-tax neighbor Maryland is hemorrhaging residents as it struggles to maintain funding for its big-spending government. As Change Maryland’s chairman Larry Hogan noted recently in Reason magazine, the state experienced a net out-migration of 31,000 residents between 2007 and … Continue reading →

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Tax Restructuring Can Benefit Every Virginian

Posted on May 10, 2012 by matt ohern

What if you could improve Virginia’s economy by eliminating state income taxes on the working poor (and cutting taxes for everyone else) while creating thousands of new jobs? And what if, at the same time, you stimulated hundreds of millions … Continue reading →

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Another Reason to Loathe Special Tax Breaks

Posted on March 1, 2012 by matt ohern

On May 27, 2010, Governor Bob McDonnell announced that Yorktown-based Orion Air Group, “one of the world’s leading operators of business aircraft,” would invest $4 million to consolidate its operations in Newport News. The project would create 51 new jobs … Continue reading →

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