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Each Taxpayer's Share: $855,000
Financial State of the Union 2021
Our Financial State of the Union report found that the financial condition of the U.S. government worsened by nearly $10 trillion in 2020.
Bill's Blog
Bill Bergman serves as TIA's Director of Research. He is responsible for managing TIA's federal project and State Data Lab's data base. Bergman spent 13 years as an economist and policy analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Financial State of the Cities 2021
Our fifth annual Financial State of the Cities report. This analysis surveys the fiscal health of the 75 most populated US cities prior to the coronavirus pandemic.
Financial State of the States 2020
Our eleventh annual Financial State of the States report. This analysis surveys the fiscal health of the 50 states prior to the coronavirus pandemic.
Data-Z (formerly State Data Lab)
Create your own chart with more than 700 data variables, including demographic, economic and financial at the federal, state, and city level.
Big government and big inflation
May 18, 2021
Ron Paul Institute
By Ron Paul, includes “… One way the Fed increases the money supply — and thus lowers interest rates — is by purchasing US Treasury securities.”
Taxpayer debt in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio is now even higher
May 18, 2021
Texas Scorecard
By Robert Montoya, includes “School district debts in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio are alarmingly high at more than $7 billion. When you add these to the cities’ debts and other underlying governments, the combined debt each taxpayer must pay is $69,600. Change will only come when ‘citizen advocates’ get involved.”
Report on municipal pensions ought not to be ignored
May 17, 2021
News-Gazette (Illinois)
Editorial, includes “A recent report on the financially sick status of municipal pensions in Illinois made a big splash, but not as big as it should have. As she surveys the financial wreckage that envelops state and local government in Illinois, Sheila Weinberg embraces grim reality. ”
Rich Democratic lawmakers stand to benefit from the SALT tax cuts
May 18, 2021
Jacobin Magazine
By Emma Rindlisbacher, includes “Democrats are threatening to hold up President Joe Biden’s signature infrastructure plan, which relies heavily on tax increases, in the hopes that Biden will eliminate the cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction.”
Life of tax: What Americans will pay in taxes over a lifetime
May 18, 2021
Self
Includes “The US government collects over $5.3 trillion in taxes each year, but how much will the average American pay in taxes throughout their lifetime? … It’s a lot. We’ve analyzed this data specific to each state so you can see what you may be giving to your local government in taxes across your entire life..”
Continued financing of government debt by the Bank of Canada poses significant economic risks
May 18, 2021
Fraser Institute (Canada)
Includes “The idea that the Bank of Canada can continue to finance government debt by printing money without a clear commitment to repayment, known as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), poses enormous risks to the Canadian economy, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan, Canadian public policy think-tank. ”
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