Democratic Municipal Officials Digest
Week of 8/15/2022

DMO Update

• DMO Statement on the Inflation Reduction Act

• Skilled Union Labor Rules Assure Quality Construction – Read the Op Ed from DMO Board Member and Glendale, WI Mayor Bryan Kennedy

• Get your council involved with DMO – NationalDMO.org/join

Quick Links

• Minimum Wage Workers Cannot Afford a 2-bedroom Rental Home Anywhere

• Salt Lake City Confronts a Future Without a Lake

• Gainesville, Florida, Moves to End Single-Family Zoning

Ideas for Cities

• New law requires large warning labels at Albany County gun sellers

• 10 Ways to Make Your Local Match for Federal Projects

• Extreme Weather Is Only Getting Worse. Can Cities Protect Public Transit?

Messaging –Taxes and the Inflation Reduction Act

• Not one middle class person filling out their taxes will find that they are facing higher taxes or higher tax rates because of the corporate minimum tax. It’s that simple.

• The only people who have proposed raising taxes on Americans earning under $400,000 are Senate Republicans with an agenda put forward by Senator Rick Scott.

• The analysis has been clear: the corporate minimum tax will only raise taxes on 150 corporations earning more than $1 billion in profits who pay less than 15% in taxes.

• Steve Rosenthal, Tax Policy Center: “If you’re not a tax cheat, hedge fund manager or a corporation making over $1 billion, you’re not affected.”

News for Democrats

• How they won: Kansas organizers unpack their big win for abortion rights

• Armed man who was at Capitol on Jan. 6 is fatally shot after firing into an FBI field office in Cincinnati

• Harvard Affirmative Action, Gay Rights Cases Are Next Up at Supreme Court

Pic of the Week

The new signage set to be displayed in front of all Albany County gun stores.