Q & A with Sen Grassley: Tax Freedom Day

~from Sen Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Q:  What is Tax Freedom Day? A:  As tax filing season winds down for the year, taxpayers can look forward to reaching another milestone on April 24.  That’s the day, 114 days into the calendar year (excluding Leap Day), that the nonpartisan Tax Foundation says taxpayers have worked to meet their federal, state and local…

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April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month

The Iowa Department of Public Safety’s Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau wants to bring to light in April, Distracted Driving Awareness Month, the alarming number of crashes caused by distracted driving. Nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation, in 2014 there were 3,179 people killed, up slightly from 2013, in distracted driving crashes, that account for 10 percent of all…

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