In what may well be the tipping point in a decade-long fight to level the playing field for local brick-and-mortar businesses, California this week enacted...
Doing so would ease budget shortfalls and restore a measure of fairnessfor small businesses, which lack access to these loopholes and end upshouldering a heavier...
Little-noticed laws in more than half the states allow retailers to keep a portion of the sales taxes they collect from shoppers. The practice is...
The delinking of money from place and productive investment is not the inevitable result of technological advances or economic evolution. Money is a human invention...
Included in the state budget passed this week by the New York legislature is a provision that requires online retailers, including Amazon.com, to collect state...
For years, chain retailers have exploited a loophole present in the tax laws of about half the states to escape paying billions of dollars in...
For years local business owners and their supporters in the Arizona legislature have tried to put an end to the massive subsidies that cities in...
In this interview on KUOW (Seattle public radio), Stacy discusses the hidden cost of mega-retailers.
Under a law enacted in 2002, communities in California were alllowed to aggregate electric utility customers and take control over their electric system. Three years...
“That giant sucking sound you hear coming from the edge of town is the sound of money being taken out of your community by big-box...
A new report prepared for the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission concludes that retail development costs cities more in public services than it generates in revenue....
California taxpayers are spending $86 million a year providing healthcare and other public assistance to the state’s 44,000 Wal-Mart employees, according to a new study...
In May, Vermont became the seventeenth state in the nation to close a loophole that major chain retailers are using to evade paying state income...
Taxpayers are picking up the tab for Wal-Mart’s low wages and meager benefits, according to a new congressional report. Prepared by the Democratic staff of...
In his State of the State address, Vermont Governor James Douglas proposed closing a tax loophole that gives national chains an advantage over local businesses....