Isles require new tax calculus to thrive
We can generate the revenue needed to protect essential services without raising taxes on the great majority of Hawaiʻi residents. By focusing on the highest earners and largest corporations, we can keep our communities strong, even as federal support disappears.
The long struggle over taxing the rich
States’ taxes lean most heavily on poorer residents. These states are trying to change that.
Will the states finally tax the rich?
Lawmakers in seven states last month introduced legislation that aims, in some innovative ways, to raise taxes on their most fiscally favored.

