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How Much Does Your State Rely on Property, Sales, & Income Taxes?
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How Much Does Your State Rely on Property, Sales, & Income Taxes?

I live in the state of Washington which has no state income tax. Instead, the state largely relies on sales tax revenue to fund state and local public services like education, utilities, etc. Meanwhile, across the Columbia River in Oregon they have no sales tax, but the highest state income
06 Apr 2022 2 min read
Fact Check: Trump vs. Hillary
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Fact Check: Trump vs. Hillary

> Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government. - Thomas Jefferson (1789) [http://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/118] Whether in error, or to serve their own interests, politicians too often play fast and loose with the truth, exploiting the public's trust
12 Sep 2016 1 min read
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Fact Check Viz: Behind the Scenes

Data Extraction * Import.io [http://www.import.io] 'Crawler' to scrape tabular data from Politifact [http://www.politifact.com]. Data Scrubbing * A calculated field to format text as dates * Parsed out the fact check ruling from the 'Truth-o-Meter' image URL and assigned them a numerical value
12 Sep 2016 1 min read
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