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http://www.itepnet.org/wp2009/fl_whopays_factsheet.pdf

State & Local Taxes in 2007, Shares of family income

This just out: a breakdown of Florida's taxes showing how the overwhelming tax burden to pay for state services is carried by those least able to pay.

http://www.itepnet.org/wp2009/fl_whopays_factsheet.pdf

State & Local Taxes in 2007, Shares of family income

This just out: a breakdown of Florida's taxes showing how the overwhelming tax burden to pay for state services is carried by those least able to pay.

OK, Florida’s legislature keeps cutting back its responsibility to provide public services. So what does that mean?
When talking about the devolution in state services, we can’t pretend it is simply the product of a few bad apples in office. We’d be missing the point that this is part of a bigger trend.

The term neoliberalism came about in the 1970’s to describe the dominant ideology that frames… Continue

OK, Florida’s legislature keeps cutting back its responsibility to provide public services. So what does that mean?
When talking about the devolution in state services, we can’t pretend it is simply the product of a few bad apples in office. We’d be missing the point that this is part of a bigger trend.

The term neoliberalism came about in the 1970’s to describe the dominant ideology that frames… Continue

Funding Education: A History Lesson
When Florida’s community colleges were born, they were an example for the nation. Their funding was intentionally drawn from the state so that each college would have equal funding. They were placed throughout the state so that no person would be more than 99 miles from a college. It was a bastion of equalitarian funding, and a huge ladder out of poverty for thousands of students.

But soon legislatures were being courted by neoliberalism—a profit-over-people… Continue