Please go to these two links for our Tax and Revenue plan:
Go to: www.dcstatehoodgreen.org/testimony/fairtax and
http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org/testimony/budget_request_act_and_budget_support_act_of_2010 (Please copy and paste this URL)
Reducing the income gap and "misery index" in the District would benefit the wealthy as well as everyone else by reducing crime, stimulating consumer spending and reducing class/racial polarization. "The Bible commands that the law promote justice because human beings are not good enough to promote justice individually on their own," she said. "To assume that voluntary charity will raise enough revenues to meet this standard is to deny the sin of greed." Susan Pace Hamill, Professor, University of Alabama Law School. (NYT, December 25, 2007. See her books: "As Certain As Death, A Fifty-State Survey of State and Local Tax Laws" and "An Argument for Tax Reform Based on Judeo-Christian Ethics"
Distribution of Federal AGI Within the States, 2006
Share of Total
In-State Federal AGI, 2006
Top 1% Bottom 50% Ratio
Wyoming 30.7% 11.6% 2.6
New York 28.7% 10.7% 2.7
Nevada 28.6% 13.2% 2.2
Connecticut 28.1% 10.6% 2.7
Florida 27.3% 11.7% 2.3
District of Columbia 25.5% 11.9% 2.1
California 23.1% 12.2% 1.9
Massachusetts 22.9% 12.0% 1.9
Texas 22.7% 12.1% 1.9
Illinois 21.4% 12.3% 1.7
United States 21.1% 12.7% 1.7
Arizona 20.5% 14.1% 1.5
Colorado 20.5% 13.2% 1.6
Oklahoma 20.4% 13.6% 1.5
New Jersey 19.9% 11.9% 1.7
Louisiana 19.5% 12.9% 1.5
Washington 19.1% 13.9% 1.4
Georgia 19.1% 12.8% 1.5
Idaho 19.0% 14.2% 1.3
Tennessee 19.0% 13.7% 1.4
South Dakota 18.9% 13.9% 1.4
Utah 18.6% 14.1% 1.3
New Hampshire 18.3% 13.5% 1.4
Alabama 18.2% 13.7% 1.3
Delaware 18.1% 14.0% 1.3
Pennsylvania 18.1% 13.1% 1.4
Maryland 18.1% 13.5% 1.3
Nebraska 17.7% 14.3% 1.2
Virginia 17.5% 13.3% 1.3
Minnesota 17.4% 13.7% 1.3
Kansas 17.2% 13.6% 1.3
Rhode Island 17.2% 13.6% 1.3
North Carolina 17.0% 14.0% 1.2
Missouri 16.9% 13.9% 1.2
Vermont 16.9% 13.8% 1.2
South Carolina 16.8% 14.1% 1.2
Wisconsin 16.5% 14.3% 1.2
Oregon 16.3% 14.2% 1.2
Montana 16.3% 13.6% 1.2
Hawaii 16.1% 14.7% 1.1
Mississippi 15.9% 14.7% 1.1
New Mexico 15.6% 13.8% 1.1
Ohio 15.5% 14.9% 1.0
Arkansas 15.4% 14.7% 1.0
Indiana 15.2% 14.2% 1.1
Kentucky 15.0% 14.5% 1.0
Michigan 15.0% 13.4% 1.1
North Dakota 14.9% 14.8% 1.0
Maine 14.9% 15.0% 1.0
Iowa 14.0% 15.5% 0.9
Alaska 14.0% 13.2% 1.1
West Virginia 12.1% 15.2% 0.8
Source: IRS Statistics of Income, 2006
For full report go to: http://www.ctj.org/itep/
* Personal Income Taxes: Latest IRS Data Reveal Fundamental Mismatches in the States 8/5/08
