Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Tax: US Transportation Funding Skip to content Table of Contents Key Findings Thanks to elevated deficits and interest rates, fiscal restraint is back in Washington. While substantially reversing America’s fiscal situation requires structural reforms to entitlements and taxes broadly, reforming transportation funding would also help. The user-pays principle is a sound
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In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A scene from Disney and Pixar’s film “Inside Out 2.” Courtesy: 2024 Disney | Pixar Here’s a surprise: Disney‘s media business isn’t weighing down the company anymore. The primary Disney investor narrative since 2022 has been how streaming losses, combined with a declining traditional pay
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Shares of Disney fell Wednesday as concerns about attendance at its theme parks overshadowed streaming profits and better-than-expected headline results. However, the quarter checked the boxes that matter most to us, making the stock decline a buying opportunity. Revenue in the fiscal third quarter totaled $23.16 billion, topping the $23.07 billion expected by analysts, according
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Traffic_analyzer | Digitalvision Vectors | Getty Images Financial services companies and their digital technology suppliers are under intense pressure to achieve compliance with strict new rules from the EU that require them to boost their cyber resilience. By the start of next year, financial services firms and their technology suppliers will have to make sure
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Jeremy Poland | E+ | Getty Images American consumers claimed $8.4 billion of Inflation Reduction Act tax breaks tied to boosting the energy efficiency of their homes in 2023, according to Internal Revenue Service data, a sum that exceeded officials’ projections. More than 3.4 million U.S. households claimed at least one of two tax breaks
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Vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz looks on during a campaign rally with U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., August 6, 2024.  Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters As many retirees struggle to afford the basics, there’s been bipartisan support to exempt Social Security from income taxes. That policy
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An aerial view shows a subdivision that has replaced the once rural landscape in Hawthorn Woods, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Mortgage interest rates dropped last week to the lowest level since May 2023, causing a surge in mortgage demand from both homebuyers and especially current homeowners. Total mortgage application volume rose 6.9% last
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