How do you figure?
Lawmakers still refuse to acknowledge the best way to attack the property tax issue is through budgetary cuts.
If you want to reduce taxes, you must reduce the budget.
In an attempt to derail the anti-property tax movement, a legislative commission stated that hiking sales taxes 13.2% (from 6%) and income taxes to 9% (from 3.4%) is the only way to eliminate property taxes. Star report
Figures put together by an IU professor of public finance differ substantially. He determined sales taxes would need only raised to 9.6% and income taxes increased to 5.7%.
So which figures should we accept? Neither--such drastic increases are only necessary if no budget cuts are made.
Any plan that does not substantially cut the budget is unacceptable!
Plain & Simple: It has been said the three great principles of bureaucracy are: 1. Don't be late. 2. Don't take time off. 3. Do no work. Voters are attacking the bureaucracy by which legislators "get things done." Many legislators do not have tax relief in their heart because it will turn their position into a difficult job. Shifting the entire burden to other taxes is easy. Substantially cutting the budget to minimize any tax shift is hard.
Will it be bureaucracy as usual? Or, are you willing replace the bureaucrats with others willing to do the work?
They don't figure you will.
How do you figure?
If you want to reduce taxes, you must reduce the budget.
In an attempt to derail the anti-property tax movement, a legislative commission stated that hiking sales taxes 13.2% (from 6%) and income taxes to 9% (from 3.4%) is the only way to eliminate property taxes. Star report
Figures put together by an IU professor of public finance differ substantially. He determined sales taxes would need only raised to 9.6% and income taxes increased to 5.7%.
So which figures should we accept? Neither--such drastic increases are only necessary if no budget cuts are made.
Any plan that does not substantially cut the budget is unacceptable!
Plain & Simple: It has been said the three great principles of bureaucracy are: 1. Don't be late. 2. Don't take time off. 3. Do no work. Voters are attacking the bureaucracy by which legislators "get things done." Many legislators do not have tax relief in their heart because it will turn their position into a difficult job. Shifting the entire burden to other taxes is easy. Substantially cutting the budget to minimize any tax shift is hard.
Will it be bureaucracy as usual? Or, are you willing replace the bureaucrats with others willing to do the work?
They don't figure you will.
How do you figure?
We are willing to replace them but they seem to be clones of each other. Only way is to force them to do the job through a challenge to the constitution-stay tuned.
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Hey, good to find someone who agrees with me. GMTA.
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Cool
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