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Welcome to the Twilight of Big Tax Prep
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The Secret That's Driving Up Highway Costs
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The Car Rental Sales Tax Swap Scam
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Break Up Big Title Insurance
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States and the Coming Scam-Apocalypse
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Meet the Private Equity Firm Squeezing America for Baseball Stadium Subsidies
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State Legislators Need Higher Pay and More Staff
Understaffed and underpaid state legislatures are ripe for corruption.
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Beware State Crypto Cronyism
PLUS: A larger than normal state news roundup.
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Secret Corporate Subsidy Deals, Under Fire
PLUS: A new report on how to stop surveillance pricing.
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The Sales Tax Holiday Scam Just Won't Go Away
Meet an enduring bad idea.
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States and the Coming Scam-Apocalypse
Reduced federal consumer protections will leave state governments in the lurch.
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3
4 Ways States Are Taking on Health Care Monopolies
Red and blue states agree it’s time to rein in Big Medicine
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The Most Important Corporate Subsidy Battle of 2025
Kansas City is at the center of it all.
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Boondoggle
Boondoggle
Corporate monopolies are ripping off our states, cities, and communities. Find out why and how to stop it.
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