<ul> <li> <a href="/legacy/show/23007.html">Double-Digit Chicago Sales Tax Raises Tax Evasion Questions</a>: As shoppers leave Illinois to avoid Chicago’s new 10.25% sales tax, Tax Foundation chief economist Patrick Fleenor was asked by the Chicago Tribune about the so-called use tax. </li> <li> <a href="/legacy/show/23005.html">Momentum Builds to Repeal Maryland Computer Services Tax</a>: More than 200 Maryland business executives took to Annapolis, testifying to legislators and urging repeal of the tax.<a href="/legacy/show/23002.html"></a> </li> <li> <a href="/legacy/show/23002.html">Have the Bush Tax Cuts Made the Federal Tax Code More or Less Progressive?</a>: When one if the tax code has been made more or less progressive as a result of the Bush tax cuts, questions of the incidence of the ramifications of those tax cuts (i.e. deficits and/or government spending cuts) and the generational consequences should be kept in mind. </li> <li> <a href="/legacy/show/23001.html">New Commentary on Arkansas Lottery Proposal</a>: As we have written before, state-run lotteries levy regressive, hidden, non-neutral taxes that have no place in a system of sound state tax policy. A new Tax Foundation commentary takes a humorous approach at explaining why Arkansas should remain a non-lottery state. </li> <li> <a href="/legacy/show/22997.html">Alleged Spitzer-Prostitute Liaison Raises Tax Questions</a>: The alleged paid encounter New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer had with a prostitute at the Mayflower Hotel raises (to us, at least) some interesting tax questions. </li> </ul>
