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Southern States Have Highest Percentages of Non-Paying Tax Filers

24 May 2010

Remember this article (and this one) about the numbers of non-paying tax filers? Today, the Tax Foundation released a series of groupings of IRS data showing the breakdown of non-paying tax filers. You can see the results by the numbers here. The Tax Foundation also released the data as a graph: The red-colored states are [...]

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Hospital Tax or Cigarette Tax?

2 July 2008

Like many other states, Mississippi is feeling the squeeze of a downturn in the economy. In particular, the state is reporting a $90 million shortfall in Medicaid funding. Medicaid in Mississippi serves about 600,000 people. Mississippi, which ranks among the poorest states in the country approved the deepest cut in Medicaid eligibility for senior citizens [...]

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