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How U.S. Congress Spends Federal Tax Revenue

Chart showing how the United States Congress spends the federal tax revenue. (31 January 2008)... Read More...

Mississippi Initiative Process

Mississippi is the only state that once had a statewide initiative process but lost it: not because the people rejected it, but because the state supreme court in 1922 decided on the basis of a legal technicality to throw the I&R provision out of the state constitution... Read More...

Taxes by State

We pay Uncle Sam the same no matter where we live, but property, gasoline, tobacco, sales and state income taxes are all over the map... Read More...

The Progressives and Direct Democracy

The 1890's are often viewed today as a happy time period when Americans lived uncomplicated lives with few problems to worry about. But, time has a way of covering up the negative and the ugly. Rather than being a "happy time," the 1890's may have been one of the worst times for Americans... Read More...

The Indirect Effects of Ballot Initiatives

A number of academic studies have found that states with ballot initiatives and direct democracy have lower taxes and less spending than other states (Matsusaka, 1996)... academic literature has spent little time examining why this is the case. Some have argued anecdotally that ballot initiatives are used to enact large tax reductions at the state level... California's Proposition 13 continues to receive a great deal of attention... Read More...

American Tax Research

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