Cut Albuquerque’s Taxes Now!

You may have seen this article in today’s Albuquerque Journal. We’re always happy to get published in New Mexico’s largest newspaper, but I wish they would have gotten the headline right…the gross receipts tax is NOT a sales tax! I pointed this out in the article today and I wrote an entire piece in the [...]

Watch Out for Albuquerque’s SWAT Team

The Rio Grande Foundation is not alone in looking out for the interests of limited government and taxpayers. Albuquerque’s grassroots taxpayer advocacy organization — which goes by the moniker SWAT (stop wasting albuquerque taxes — is getting national attention as well.
While there will undoubtedly be battles to fight between now and June, the SWAT [...]

$720 Million in “New Money” Signals Need for Tax Cuts

The latest estimaes are in and it looks like New Mexico is in for a massive windfall of $720 million in FY 2008. While we are confident that our elected officials would have no problem spending it all, thus digging the state a financial hole, it makes more sense for our economically-impoverished state to continue [...]

Rail Reality: A One-Way Ticket to Higher Taxes

Check out Paul’s article today in NRO:
Fueled by oil and gas revenues that have been flowing into government coffers at a record pace, New Mexico has joined the nationwide rush to embrace expensive rail projects, with little regard for cost and even less consideration for utility.
And:
Unfortunately, Rail Runner is just one of New Mexico’s rail [...]

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