Opinion Flashback: Please Raise This Tax Please raise the tax on state and local government bonds – immediately. John Hood
News Build America Bonds: Debt on the Cheap? RALEIGH — State tax-supported debt nationwide increased by 10.3 percent in 2009 to $460 billion, more than double the rate in 2008, according to Moody’s Investors Service. Moody’s attributed part of this increase to the Build America Bonds program. Sarah Okeson