Report Confirms Rhode Island Taxes Are Regressive
A new report confirms what progressives have saying for several legislative sessions now: Rhode Island needs tax equity. According to the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report the poorest Rhode Islanders will pay more than twice as much in percentage of income than will the richest residents of the Ocean State. Rhode Island [...]
Abolish the Property Tax
In 2010, the property tax came into full view for me. That was the year the Providence City Council was forced to raise taxes on the East Side, whose property values had increased while the rest of the city’s had fallen. A friend of mine called me up to turn out with his family to [...]
Brown Students Call on University to Pay Fair Share
A group of students attending Brown University are publicly calling on the Brown Corporation to increase its monetary contributions to the City of Providence. Tomorrow morning at 10 a.m., students will speak in front of the University’s historic Van Wickle Gates, announcing the beginning of their campaign to convince Brown to reconsider its current fiscal [...]
What Can’t Brown Do for You?
Was with Occupy Providence to the City Council meeting on Thursday night and the City Council distributed the following flier about how the wealthy Brown University refuses to pay their fair share in Providence — even after teachers, firefighters, police officers and city workers did their fair share, the taxpayers did theirs and even after [...]
Carcieri Failed to Pay Property Tax on Florida Condo
UPDATE: So much for the “it went to the wrong address” defense. From the Projo: However, the litigation and collections manager for Martin County said yesterday that the office sent the bill to the correct address last December after a clerk did a little research and found Carcieri’s current address on Kenyon Avenue. It is also [...]
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