INCOME TAXES

A reconciliation of the U.S. federal statutory rate to our effective tax rate is as follows:



	For the Three Months Ended March 31,
	2016		2015
U.S. federal statutory rate	35.0	%	35.0	%
State income taxes	1.9	%	1.7	%
Other	0.3	%	0.2	%
Effective tax rate	37.2	%	36.9	%

The differences between the U.S. federal statutory rate and our effective tax rate are primarily due to state income taxes. The increase in the effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2016 compared to the same period in 2015 was primarily due to higher effective tax rates in certain state tax jurisdictions.