The Texas spring tax free weekend could not come at a better time. Each spring, the state holds the tax free holiday to prepare for severe weather and hurricanes.
TxDOT officials in January had agreed that the agency needs an additional $4 billion a year to maintain current traffic levels. Texas has increasingly relied on debt financing and tolls to expand the highway system.
Overnights on The New 940 KIXZ, we turn the station over to Jerry Doyle. He may be an old syndicated science fiction series retread but his thoughts are anything but fantastical.
Online shoppers often cite the convenience of purchasing items from web retailers like Amazon, but another perk to cyber shopping is that buyers often don’t have to pay sales tax.
Thanks to a congressional bill, though, that could soon change.
The White House and leaders in Congress thought by empowering a group of people to bypass the Congressional Quagmire that is the Washington DC structure, that they might be about to build a bargain that would cut Social Security & Medicare while raising taxes on the wealthy and cutting defense.
Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:
1913 – The United States introduces an income tax (More info)
1964 – Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time (More info)
Citing a desire to avoid soaring health costs and shortened life expectancies, British Prime Minister David Cameron will consider introducing a “fat tax” similar to one recently introduced in Denmark.