Category Archives: Taxes

Raising Payroll Taxes to Save Social Security will Cost the Average Worker $73,000

Posted on January 24, 2013 by matt ohern

(Publisher’s note:  The financial solvency of Social Security impacts Virginia, young and old alike.  This column is one perspective.) To resolve Social Security’s looming financial shortfalls, one of the primary ideas being promoted is to raise taxes. Such a proposal … Continue reading →

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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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