This just in: Walker must have felt the heat—he canceled the bill signing at Badger Sheet Metal Works and will be signing it elsewhere.

When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signs his budget bill, he will put pen to paper in a ceremony at a business owned by a convicted tax evader, reports Think Progress. The Wisconsin Budget Project says Walker’s budget includes $2.3 billion in tax cuts for corporation and the wealthy over the next 10 years.

Two quick hits here on how the rich aren’t like you and me.

From 2008 to 2010, a sample of major corporations showed they earned $173 billion in combined profits—yet not only did they not pay taxes, but they actually got money back from the federal government in the form of tax benefits. In the study, Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) looked at a dozen major corporations and analyzed their profits and their effective federal corporate income tax rates between 2008 and 2010.

A new study verifies what union members have been saying about the debate over ways to generate economic growth–you have to spend more to grow and who you vote for matters.

In Do State Fiscal Policies Affect State Economic Growth? Tulane University economist James Alm and Janet Rogers of Nevada’s Department of Budget and Planning tracked 50 years of data on the impact of state tax and spending policies. They found states that spend more  have more economic growth than states than tighten their budgets. 

Even as millions of U.S. workers can’t find a job and corporate profits are through the roof, House Speaker John Boehner has proposed a change in the tax system that will shrink the job pool even more. Boehner’s suggestion to exempt U.S corporations from paying taxes on offshore profits would give companies even more incentive to move jobs overseas, according to a new report.

More than 156 million Americans get their health care coverage through their employers. Employer and most worker contributions to health insurance premiums are excluded from workers’ taxable incomes.

It was no surprise when House Republicans stood together last week and used their majority muscle to pass—without a single Democratic vote—their Robin Hood in Reverse budget plan that privatizes Medicare, cuts corporate taxes and taxes for the wealthy, cuts Medicaid funding, repeals health care reform and slashes up to 2 million jobs.

In this cross-post from Our Fiscal Security, Tamara Draut, vice president of Policy & Programs at Demos, gives us a quick list of the top 10 tax stats.

As part of the Tax Day: Make Them Pay mobilization, the AFL-CIO community affiliate Working America is urging people to tell Congress to close the corporate tax loopholes that allow companies like ExxonMobil to rake in $19 billion in profits in 2009 and yet pay no federal income taxes—and instead, get a $156 million rebate from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). You can tell these corporate tax scofflaws to pay up—click here.

April 18 is the day this year we do our civic duty and pay taxes. But while you and I pay our fair share, some billion-dollar corporations do not.

Just in time for April 15, new data shows that since 1979, the nation’s overall average tax rate—the share of income paid in taxes—has fallen slightly, but for those at the top of the earnings ladder, this share has fallen dramatically. The analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) also points out:

At the same time that the tax burden has shifted away from the wealthy, this same top income group has enjoyed massively disproportionate income gains. Between 1992 and 2007, a time in which income for the average household and top one percent grew 13 percent and 123 percent, respectively, the income for the top 400 households grew fully 399 percent.