PTR Priority Drives Iowa Lawmakers Tax Relief Effort
Three legislators from the 36th Senate District push property tax relief and related measures. Senator Joan Orr seeks expanded refunds for low and middle income residents, home-health aid funding, and voc tech prep. Representative Emil Husak urges offsetting anticipated farm and residential tax increases. Representative Linda Svoboda backs energy, conservation bills and bottle bill action. Orr’s district spans parts of seven counties and Des Moines addresses.
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Des Moines
P.T.R
PTR
Senate
Linda Svoboda
D-Amana
Orr
Joan Yessler
Cedar Rapids
Walnut Street
Grinnell
Merrill Circle
Senate Education
Iowa
Joan Orr
Emil Husak
Toledo
Amana
Priebe Pushes for Prison Industries
Iowa Senator Bert Priebe plans a bill to reorganize prison industries. He proposes a 10 member task force of business leaders and labor officials to study the system and changes, with a goal of providing inmate job skills for release and studying mandatory restitution for crime victims. the group would report by March 1.
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Des Moines
Bert Priebe
Dalgona
Iowa
Priebe
Senate Human Resources
Iowa Mayors Press Carter on Rural Towns Meeting
Shenandoah mayor and fellow organizer Willis David Hoover plan to fund a trip to Washington to urge President Carter to address rural community issues. They faced unavailability and red tape but hope a late May meeting after Carter’s Europe trip.
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Shenandoah
Washington
Carter
White House
Willis David Hoover
National Rural Mayors Conference
Fran Voorde
Hoover
Progressive tax reform fails to aid Iowa low and middle incomes
Iowa revenue data on 1974 to 1975 changes shows that low and middle earners saw small gains while higher earners paid more. Dr. Stephen Gold notes federal tax deductibility on Iowa returns blunts progressivity, with elimination raising about 115 million dollars.
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DES Moines
UPI
Iowa
Department of Revenue
Drake University
Stephen Gold
Gold
Revenue Department
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