Revenue toolkit
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November 10, 2025
Iowa faces a budget gap of over $1 billion in FY 2026, mostly due to repeated tax cuts since 2018. This guide includes messaging strategies and sample talking points that will help frame the debate over the budget gap — and educate core audiences about the coming threats to services that people across the state rely on.
November 10, 2025
The sample copy provided here can be used as written or tailored to fit your organization’s voice and editorial style. Graphics are provided and are fit to be used on Instagram, Twitter, Bluesky and LinkedIn.
November 10, 2025
Slides from our "Perfect storm" webinar, where speakers from Common Good Iowa and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities walked attendees through information on how repeated tax cuts skewed to the rich have opened a structural deficit in our state budget, Iowa's policy of automatically adopting federal tax provision is making our revenue problem worse, and new state spending obligations — notably private-school vouchers and expanded Medicaid and SNAP responsibilities coming down from DC — will further exacerbate our challenges.