As it turns out, only a small number of pass-through owners are at the very top. In 2018, the most recent year with available data, 76,529...
Among the many false claims the panel took on was the idea that the rich flee Rhode Island for lower tax states, that the proposed tax...
All the video from the Rhode Island State House for Monday, February 8, 2021.
“It is so coincidental that the coronavirus is aiding the opposition to this bill…” said House Labor Chair Anastasia Williams with some sarcasm. Highly paid lobbyists...
“Our state’s priorities are upside down when we give millionaires big tax breaks and don’t invest in residents living with developmental disabilities and the direct support...
“Two-thirds of the benefit from a tax exemption for retirement income would flow to the richest 20 percent of Rhode Islanders,” writes Andy Boardman, “and a...
State elected legislative leaders answered questions about marijuana, the estate tax, the FY 2021 Budget, affordable housing, education, plastic bag bans, state preemption, corporate welfare, the...
“It would be much better to be on a path to $15,” said Alan Krinsky, the Senior Policy Analyst at the Economic Progress Institute. Rhode Island...
“The original bill that we had forth, which I am a cosponsor of, would have created… predictability,” said Senator Gayle Goldin (Democrat, District 3, Providence). This...
The Governor’s Task Force to Tackle Plastics held their first meeting on Friday to “develop a host of options to reduce plastic pollution in Rhode Island’s...