CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS TRY TO VASTLY TOUGHEN RULES FOR PRIMARY SEASON MATCHING FUNDS
Starting in 1984, minor party presidential candidates have used primary season matching funds to help pay for petitioners to get on the ballot. Now, Democrats in Congress propose to make eligibility for primary season matching funds five times more difficult. H.R. 1 and S.1 make many election law changes. Among the changes are increasing the difficulty of receiving primary season matching funds. Current law requires small donations totalling at least $5,000 from each of twenty states. The bills raise that to $25,000 from each of twenty states.
Minor party presidential candidates who have received primary season matching funds, and the amounts, are as follows:
Feb 15, 2021
As I said last week, all eyes are on Gov. Jim Justice’s plans to phase out the personal income tax. I knew he would mention it in his State of the State address last week, though I was surprised by the amount of detail he went into.
But even with the details he did go into, there are still a lot of unknowns. No bills have yet to be introduced on Justice’s behalf addressing the phase-out plan. We know the rates for high-income earners will drop by one-third and the rate for low-income earners would be cut in half in his proposal, but we don’t know the dollar amount that separates low- and high-income earners.
sadams@newsandsentinel.com
As I said last week, all eyes are on Gov. Jim Justice’s plans to phase out the personal income tax. I knew he would mention it in his State of the State address last week, though I was surprised by the amount of detail he went into.
But even with the details he did go into, there are still a lot of unknowns. No bills have yet to be introduced on Justice’s behalf addressing the phase-out plan. We know the rates for high-income earners will drop by one-third and the rate for low-income earners would be cut in half in his proposal, but we don’t know the dollar amount that separates low- and high-income earners.
As I said last week, all eyes are on Gov. Jim Justice’s plans to phase out the personal income tax. I knew he would mention it in his State of the State addre