Kentucky faces a choice: protect investments in education, health and other state priorities from further budget cuts, or continue to give tax breaks to special interests?
The resources provided here will help you make this choice clear in conversations with family, colleagues, neighbors, fellow parishioners and legislators: We cannot continue to cut. We need to clean up special interest tax breaks and invest in Kentucky.
What Are Kentucky’s Options?
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy: Revenue Options Report
Coalition for a Smoke-Free Tomorrow: $1 Tobacco Tax Increase
Republican Proposals To End Tax Breaks Could Create a Better Budget
2018-2020 Tax Expenditure Analysis Report
Blue Ribbon Commission on Tax Reform (2012)
What Not to Do
Cautionary Tales From Tax-Shifting States
Community Conversation Toolkit
Kentucky Together Talking Points
Charts and Graphs
Erosion of Kentucky’s general fund
Kentucky’s expensive tax breaks
Kentucky’s budget: revenue and appropriations
Kentucky’s regressive tax system
Bring the budget back home through a series of videos about how the investments we make with taxes affect every day Kentuckians and the programs and services we all believe in.
