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A Move from Local Occupational Taxes to Sales Taxes Would Be a Regressive Tax Shift

Some proponents of HB 475, a constitutional amendment to expand revenue options for local governments, say it will result in...

Jason Bailey | March 10, 2020

Report

House Budget Makes Adjustments Including to Employee Raises, Social Workers and Rainy Day Fund and Contains No New Revenue

The House budget plan includes many of the same priorities that the governor proposed, but contains a different emphasis in a variety of areas. Compared to the governor’s budget, the...

Jason Bailey | March 6, 2020

Report

Revenue Options That Strengthen the Commonwealth

Currently, too many tax breaks drain money that is needed to shore up and sustain public schools, higher education and workforce development; teacher and state worker pension systems; preschool, child...

Jason Bailey and Pam Thomas | March 2, 2020

Analysis

State Policy Decisions Hinder Kentucky’s Readiness for Coronavirus

As fears rise about coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States, state policy choices create a context that either limits or enables harm and disruption from its potential spread. In Kentucky,...

Jason Bailey | March 2, 2020

Analysis

Tax Plan Would Fix Kentucky’s Budget Challenges by Addressing Upside Down Tax Code

A new bill would generate substantial new revenue for Kentucky’s budget by asking those at the top and corporations to chip in a portion of the enormous federal and state...

Jason Bailey | February 13, 2020

Analysis

Understanding the Quasi Pension Funding Issue

Over the last few days, attention has turned to whether Governor Beshear's budget underfunds the main state worker pension system, the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) non-hazardous plan, in the...

Jason Bailey | February 3, 2020

Report

Governor’s Budget Makes Modest Increases to Education Funding and Selected Other Areas, Raises Small Amount of New Revenue

Governor Beshear’s budget proposal to the General Assembly contains small increases in spending for P-12 education and provides funding for other targeted areas including relief for quasi-governmental organizations facing spiking...

Jason Bailey | January 28, 2020

Analysis

Another Year of Modest Job Growth in Kentucky

We outlined in a 2018 report how Kentucky's economic performance had fallen short of claims based on corporate announcements. Among other things, we noted that the pace of state job...

Jason Bailey | January 24, 2020

Analysis

Tax Cuts Causing the Worst Revenue Projections Since Consensus Forecasting Began

Next week, Governor Beshear will present his state budget proposal to the General Assembly and the legislature will begin crafting a new budget for the next two years. Due in...

Jason Bailey | January 23, 2020

Analysis

What the Finally-Released Actuarial Analysis Tells Us About So-Called Pension Reform

Today Governor Beshear released the actuarial analysis of the 2017 "Keeping the Promise" pension proposal that had been suppressed for the last two years. As expected and as we noted...

Jason Bailey | December 20, 2019

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