Subject: Tax Policy

• Our MIA Mayor

  His first year has been marked by a fierce determination to dodge controversy

  October 16, 2008

• House GOP Leaders: 'We're Not Right-Wing Crazies'

  House Republican leaders summoned the media today to trumpet their priorities for the 2009 session. Apparently to avoid appearing like moralistic nutjobs--not an easy task--they omitted any mention of those ever-popular "family values" issues. At the presser, God and guns took a backseat to putting education first and doing whatever possible to help small businesses because, as we all know, they are the backbone of the American economy. Asked about this, GOP leader Jason Mumpower did some fast

  February 9, 2009

• Revenue Department Report Labels Tennessee the Next Grand Cayman Island

  Reagan FarrThe controversial tax loophole for so-called family owned non-corporate entities, aka real-estate tycoons in business with their relatives, is costing the state government $25 million annually, and fully one-fifth of these tax dodgers live outside Tennessee. That's according to a new report from the Bredesen administration, which is asking the legislature to close the loophole. Today's report says the loophole is "making Tennessee a tax haven for out-of-state, wealthy investors who w

  March 19, 2009

• Dean’s Dilemma

  Mayor ducks money issue in his first State of Metro speech

  May 15, 2008

• Read Their Lips

  Council members wince as Clement (and Dean) draw line on taxes

  September 6, 2007

• Love And Hate Mail

  You said it, we didn't

  October 21, 2004

• The Stealth Sales Tax Campaign

  How to rock the geriatric vote without speaking too loudly?

  August 25, 2005

• Regress for Success

  Will progressives hold their noses and back a sales tax hike?

  July 28, 2005

• Word of the Week

  June 9, 2005

• Political Dog Days

  Ruminations on the economy and the Bush administration's "borrow and spend" fiscal approach

  September 16, 2004

• Phil’s Boy

  Jim Kyle is emerging as Bredesen’s key Senate ally

  April 3, 2003

• Love/Hate Mail

  There’s a tear in his beer

  January 30, 2003

• Class Backwards

  Even conservatives say the Bush tax plan stimulates a social agenda more than the economy

  January 23, 2003

• The Issue That Wonít Go Away

  Candidates are still talking taxes, and the issue even seems to be defining the gubernatorial race

  August 22, 2002

• Where Was John?

  The legislature’s tax increase roll call holds tales of cowardice

  July 11, 2002

• Shrimp and Martinis

  With hard issues imperfectly resolved, being in the legislature will be fun again

  July 11, 2002

• Second Time Around

  Some look at Tennessee's horrible shape and cry. Two-time gubernatorial candidate Phil Bredesen scans the numbers and smiles

  July 18, 2002

• Who Pays?

  Suburban interests, Pickett’s Charge and a very bad new tax plan in the legislature

  June 20, 2002

• The Fabricator

  Legislature begins color-coded warning system

  March 21, 2002

• Pennies on the Dollar

  Get ready for a sales tax increase, because the latest income tax proposal is about to go down in flames

  February 14, 2002

• Business As Usual

  After all the talk of unity, Bush and Congress are back in the mud

  February 7, 2002

• The Power to Lose

  Sundquist hasn’t helped himself any, but his irrelevancy also has a historical basis

  October 11, 2001

• It’s Not Over

  The Capitol will be quiet until January—then the crisis will begin again

  August 16, 2001

• Tokyo Saved

  Godzilla of tax proposal beaten back for now

  July 19, 2001

• Love/Hate Mail

  Stealing the music

  July 5, 2001

• Without a Honk

  Metro taxpayers will ante up, and they’re not complaining

  June 28, 2001

• Taxing Poetic

  Why was the Bush tax cut such an easy sale?

  June 14, 2001

• No One’s Talking

  When it comes to taxes, gubernatorial candidates won’t say much

  June 14, 2001

• Boring is Good

  Purcell plods along, promoting good and uncontroversial initiatives

  June 14, 2001

• Pass It

  May 31, 2001

• Perverting Keynes

  To peddle his tax plan, Bush twists the work of a dead economist

  March 29, 2001

• The Magic Word

  Schools need money—period

  January 11, 2001

• Braveheart Bob

  With Democrats like Clement, who needs Republicans?

  August 3, 2000

• Survival Tactics

  Lawmakers scrambling for their political lives in budget showdown

  June 22, 2000

• Editorial

  What Fun, Taxes

  June 15, 2000

• Will Work for Food

  Legislative supper group shows hints of progress

  May 11, 2000

• Taxing Times

  How talk radio hijacked state government

  November 25, 1999

• Mouthing Off

  Joe Rodgers opens his mouth, nibbles his toes

  November 4, 1999

• Read His Lips

  Sundquist ready to crusade for income tax

  October 7, 1999

• Taxman Cometh

  Sundquist counting on lawmakers to do about-face in special session

  October 21, 1999

• The Week That Was

  Woolly winter

  September 16, 1999

• The Tax Theater

  Sorting out the debate's cast of characters

  September 9, 1999

• A Heavily Taxing Job

  July 29, 1999

• Liberal or Traitor?

  June 3, 1999

• Bagging the Grocery Tax

  April 1, 1999

• Metro's Money

  March 4, 1999

• By a Nose

  June 25, 1998

• What Price Tomorrow?

  January 8, 1998

• Propose and Compromise

  June 26, 1997

• Insufficient Funds

  March 13, 1997