“If we want to fund reparations, we have to tax wealth,” Mitchell said. “[It’s] made possible due to centuries of discrimination and anti-Black oppression.”
“This is the worst budget for housing since the mayor became the mayor,” says Kate Coventry, deputy director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute and a longtime housing wonk.
“It’s one piece of a larger law and larger suite of investments meant to support the whole child,” said Anne Gunderson, a senior policy analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.
“Now the mayor’s trying to tell us that the pay equity fund is too expensive, while pouring our tax dollars into big businesses downtown,” Anne Gunderson with the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute said.
“Sales taxes are regressive, and what that means for folks who are listening, is that it asks more as a share of income from folks with lower incomes and moderate incomes than it does of folks with higher incomes.”
“The mayor’s budget takes an ax to the transformative investments—like the Pay Equity Fund—that D.C. has invested in in recent years, prioritizing the wealthy business sector and police force over investments in D.C. residents struggling to get by,” […]
On Wednesday, Tazra Mitchell counted among those who called on the D.C. Council to raise revenue and preserve social programs by taxing wealth. In her role as chief policy and strategy officer at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, Mitchell often communicates what […]
“I just don’t believe she ever intended to fully fund it,” says Tazra Mitchell, chief policy and strategy officer for the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, noting that Bowser also made comments about “right-sizing” the program in last year’s budget […]
“It’s totally unfair to have locally owned businesses footing the bill for a bunch of other businesses just because their owners live outside of the District,” says Erica Williams, executive director of the left-leaning D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute and a […]
DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) Chief Policy and Strategy Officer Tazra Mitchell fears the mayor’s budget will have cuts to social services, citing slow-growing revenues that won’t be enough to sustain current investments.