The filing deadline for federal income taxes, as well as the Tax Day Tea Party protests, brought a new wave of media coverage for us. I appeared on CNN last night to talk about federal, state and local tax burdens; staff economist Josh Barro did a live segment yesterday morning on Fox Business News to compare tax situations in different states. While we don’t yet have the video for those segments, here’s a sample of some more media coverage we received from yesterday: On Tax Freedom Day and the federal income tax: Andrea Neal, an adjunct scholar at the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, writes an op-ed on the intended impact of the Tea Party protests in the Indianapolis Star. Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Thomas Oliver shares his many thoughts on the tax code. The editorial board at the Washington Times led with figures from our Tax Freedom Day report in a column on the Tea Party protests. The editorial board at the Orange County Register also joined the Tea Party, bemoaning California’s relatively late Tax Freedom Day, April 20th. WebCPA editor-in-chief Michael Cohn also featured Tax Freedom Day. CNN guest commentator John Feehery asks why so many people pay nothing in federal income taxes. (Read more about “non-payers” here.) Professor Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago cites our income tax data in a New York Times Economix Blog post on payroll taxes, which he calls “Form 1040’s Neglected Kid Sister.” Andy Sullivan writes on Tax Freedom Day and the Tea Parties on Reuters’s “Front Row Washington” blog. The Christian Science Monitor interviews senior research fellow Robert Carroll on the effects of higher tax rates on higher income earners. CNET chief political correspondent Declan McCullagh interviews me for a column on CBS News declaring our “income tax system is broken.” On our recently released 2009 Poll on Taxes, Government Spending and Wealth Distribution: Karl Rove features many of the results from our poll questions in the Wall Street Journal today. Rove also features the poll on his own website. CNNMoney.com cited our poll question on tax burdens in a story on how those burdens are distributed among different income groups. Brett Joshpe uses the results of our poll in a column for National Review Online on estate taxes. The editorial board of the Deseret News in Salt Lake City features our polls questions on tax burdens and tax complexity in a column bemoaning our current tax code. On state taxes and sin taxes: Michigan’s Attorney General Mike Cox (R) cites our State Business Tax Climate Index in a Detroit News op-ed calling for a repeal of the state’s income tax. Andrew Cline, editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union-Leader, cites our State-Local Tax Burden report in a Tea Party column in the American Spectator. The Arizona Republic features our data on state tax burdens. The editorial board at the Wall Street Journal cites our tax counsel, Joseph Henchman, in a column on beer taxes. Both the New York Times Economix Blog and the Arkansas Times feature a study from our analyst Mark Robyn on border zone cigarette taxation in Arkansas. For breaking news, research and data, follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/taxfoundation
