A pre-election column I wrote focused on some of the tax-related ballot questions.
The outcomes were mixed.Illinois voters approved by a 64% to 36% margin a nonbinding ballot initiative testing support for increasing the income tax on millionaires by 3 percentage points to pay for education.
A soda tax failed in San Francisco but passed in Berkeley.
Americans for Tax Reform cites tax wins including: repealing automatic inflation-linked gas tax increases in Massachusetts, rejecting a business tax increase earmarked for education in Nevada, and limiting taxes in Georgia and Tennessee. North Dakota voters also limited taxes.