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Commentary: States of Crisis Governors know plenty of phony ways to balance out-of-whack state budgets. Here are a few honest ones.   |
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August 25, 2010
Peter Coy |
Governor Chris Christie: GOP Darling New Jersey Governor Christie is a rising national star. By taking on his state's bloated budget, he embodies the New Austerity. Will voters hate him for it? |
BusinessWeek
March 3, 2011
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For Governors, Public Sector Unions Are the Enemy They're being targeted for pay cuts, benefit cuts, salary cuts, and loss of collective bargaining rights |
BusinessWeek
August 25, 2010 |
Timeline: Chris Christie Events in New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's life and career. |
BusinessWeek
May 12, 2011
Tim Jones |
Taking a Page from the Republican Playbook Illinois state Democrats rumble with the unions over benefits. |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
Ronald Grover |
Choose Your Weapon, Arnold Attacking California's deficit could mean cutting back on universities, courts, and police. |
BusinessWeek
May 26, 2011
Margaret Newkirk |
State Budget Cuts, Reconsidered A faster-than-expected recovery in tax revenue has some states loosening their belts, while others stick to austerity plans. |
Inc.
July 1, 2003
Bobbie Gossage |
A Gross Tax Proposal A business activity tax stands to change the way taxes are calculated in Kentucky. |
BusinessWeek
April 7, 2011
Michael Marois et al. |
Cuomo vs. Brown: A Tale of Two Governors Budget success or failure may rest on how much power the state executive holds. |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010 |
Britain's Scary Budget Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne announced his budget and it's not pretty |
The Motley Fool
April 7, 2010
Thomas F. Cooley |
(Don't) Read My Lips: Higher Taxes Are Inevitable Given current fiscal realities, higher taxes are inevitable. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2010
Jennifer Schonberger |
The State of the States: Virginia's Governor Weighs In The Governor of Virginia on the fiscal state of Virginia. |
BusinessWeek
June 16, 2011
Terrence Dopp |
New Jersey's Lavish Payday for Retirees New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wants to stop paying public workers for unused sick and vacation days, which add up to $825 million. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Matt Welch |
California Screaming: The Golden State's political class comes unglued in the face of a citizens' revolt Faced with a political class that ignored bureaucratic inefficiency, that demanded higher taxes, that filled the newspapers with scare stories about budget cuts, the citizens of one of the bluest states in the nation collectively said we just don't believe you anymore. |
BusinessWeek
December 10, 2009
Ryan Donmoyer |
How Many Ways Can You Tax the Rich? Democrats are scrambling to fund their wish list while keeping Obama's pledge to go easy on most Americans. |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
Howard Gleckman |
A Bit More For The Coffers After three years in free-fall, federal, state, and local government revenues are starting to show signs of a pickup. |
BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011
Simone Baribeau |
State Workers Run for the Exits Many states are seeing double-digit increases in retirement applications as legislators trim pay and benefits. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Nanette Byrnes |
Sink Hole! How public pension promises are draining state and city budgets. |
Inc.
April 2008
Laura Cohn |
States Eye New Taxes Facing budget shortfalls, tax commissioners in many states are desperate for new sources of revenue. Guess where they're looking? |
BusinessWeek
June 9, 2011
Steven Sloan |
States Are Rejecting Millionaire Taxes Opposition from Republicans and business, plus rising revenues, are leading to a rollback |
BusinessWeek
November 4, 2009
Jane Sasseen |
Health-Care Reform's Hidden Taxes Why a lot of health reform's costs could be borne by the middle class, despite Obama's pledges. |
Reason
October 2003
John Hood |
Why the States Are Broke Bloated governments, budget gaps, and Parkinson's laws |
BusinessWeek
April 28, 2011
Mildenberg & Nash |
California, Texas, and State Workers' Pay As California tries to close a $15.4 billion budget gap, state workers - who earn 25.2 percent more than their counterparts in Texas - face cuts. |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2010
Coy & Przybyla |
Debt and Taxes: Will America Ever Grow Up? Two new proposals to get serious about the U.S. budget deficit are colliding with the same old dysfunctional politics. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Ryan Donmoyer |
Brinkmanship Over the Bush Tax Cuts High-income Americans could be the beneficiaries of a looming fight over whether to extend or let expire the Bush-era tax cuts. |
BusinessWeek
September 30, 2010
Tom Keene |
Tom Keene's Econo Chat A conversation with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie about state pensions. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Weekly Walk of Shame: Greek Tragedy The situation in Greece holds foreboding for us all. |
BusinessWeek
June 2, 2010
Palmeri & Marois |
Can Jerry Brown Cut California Down to Size? In the '70s, he was "Governor Moonbeam." Now he's running for the office again -- as a fiscal hawk. |
Reason
May 2009
Flynn & Summers |
Failed States After a long spending binge, governors go begging for a handout. It won't be their last. |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005 |
Wanted: An Honest Budget Bad news outweighs good as President Bush prepares to announce the next federal budget. |
BusinessWeek
June 16, 2010
Palmeri & Marois |
The Money That Fueled California's Election Revolt Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his allies hope their Proposition 14 victory will help end California's political gridlock. |
Inc.
October 2006
Mike Hofman |
Rating the Governors With Arnold Schwarzenegger and 25 other governors up for reelection, we look at who among them has earned the entrepreneurial vote. |
BusinessWeek
August 5, 2010
Peter Coy |
The Wisdom and Folly of the Bush Tax Cuts Most economists agree there's little choice but to end tax cuts from George W. Bush's era. That means the fiscal war in Washington is only going to get uglier. |
BusinessWeek
February 23, 2011
Brendan Greeley |
The High Stakes Union Stare-Down Why stripping collective bargaining rights from public-sector workers is worth debating. |
BusinessWeek
May 26, 2011
Esme E. Deprez |
From Budget Deficits to Official State Desserts Even as lawmakers grapple with fiscal problems, they're finding time to designate state guns, state fish, and state songs. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Kevin Cheng |
The Long Run Is Near France, like many advanced economies, confronts the expensive needs of a rapidly aging population |
BusinessWeek
January 21, 2010
Jane Sasseen |
Taxes: Ready to Rumble How Obama will target business, and how business will fight back |
BusinessWeek
July 5, 2004
Grover & Palmeri |
Arnold Is Hitting His Marks The Sacramento governor has plugged budget holes. But is he pushing the problems into the future? |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Laurence J. Kotlikoff |
A Hidden Fiscal Crisis A noted U.S. economist says debt figures seriously understate long-term budget problems in the United States |
BusinessWeek
July 8, 2010
Elgin & Palmeri |
Steve Peace: California Revolutionary The man who is changing the way California -- and possibly the rest of the country -- elects its leaders is a political maverick with an eccentric legacy in both Sacramento and Hollywood. |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2003
Howard Gleckman |
As Growth Sizzles, What's A Dem To Do? Presidential hopefuls will try to ignite middle class rage over breaks for the wealthy. |
BusinessWeek
May 13, 2010
Ryan &O'Donnell |
The Bank of England's Kingmaker A central banker's dire deficit warnings became an election issue |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
A New Governor Won't Fix What Ails California The recall shows that the mixture of money politics and direct-democracy provisions has made the state ungovernable. |
BusinessWeek
May 26, 2011
Mark Niquette |
Tiny Towns May Be an Endangered Species Several states facing budget shortfalls are offering incentives for townships to share services or even merge. |
Salon.com
March 5, 2001
David Horowitz |
Other people's money President Bush's proposed tax cut would wrest control from tax-and-spend Democrats and return power to the people... |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2004
David A. Geracioti |
The Great Gray Beast An interview with Peter G. Peterson, author of Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America -- and the World and Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It, on how the political class is mortgaging America's future. |
Reason
February 2009
Matt Welch |
Schwarzenegger's Failure If the California governor is the face of "moderate" Republicanism, the party is even more doomed than the 2008 elections suggest. |
BusinessWeek
February 17, 2011
Mike Dorning |
Obama's Budget and Its Discontents To Republican free-market purists, Obama's 2012 budget priorities smack of Keynesian interventionism. |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2010
Beth Jinks & Terrence Dopp |
Governor Christie's Atlantic City Cleanup Plan To revive development, the New Jersey Republican would oversee a takeover of the gambling district and surrounding neighborhoods. |
The Motley Fool
May 27, 2010
Jennifer Schonberger |
Virginia's Governor Weighs In: Part 2 Bob McDonnell explains why the state is suing the federal government. |
