Comments on: PA, NC, ME Sign On To Higher Taxes http://www.taxgirl.com/pa-nc-me-sign-on-to-higher-taxes/ Paying taxes is painful... but reading about them shouldn't be. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:55:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: SoakTheMiddleClass http://www.taxgirl.com/pa-nc-me-sign-on-to-higher-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-10669 SoakTheMiddleClass Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:30:07 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/?p=3499#comment-10669 Oh that plan in Maine is terrific. Tax the broad middle class more, and then directly take the money and give it back to the rich. After all, that worked well federally in the last eight years. But, what happens when the rich have all the wealth and the middle class has none? Will the rich volunteer to serve food in the soup lines? That remains to be seen... Oh that plan in Maine is terrific. Tax the broad middle class more, and then directly take the money and give it back to the rich. After all, that worked well federally in the last eight years.

But, what happens when the rich have all the wealth and the middle class has none? Will the rich volunteer to serve food in the soup lines? That remains to be seen…

]]> By: garagefather http://www.taxgirl.com/pa-nc-me-sign-on-to-higher-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-10667 garagefather Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:42:31 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/?p=3499#comment-10667 Give me a line item budget of those states and I can guarantee you that in less than an hour I could find enough areas to cut to balance their budgets. It's not that it can't be done, it's that no one has the political will to do it. Since we are at a point where the majority of citizens pay very little in taxes, politicians fear that this constituency group would end their political careers. The system so heavily favors the bottom 50 percent of earners that the political will to control spending is evaporating. How many times have we heard from people something like, " In a country as rich as the USA, how can we not have free health care for all, or free this, or free that?" Just ask the enormously obese women with a food stamp card at the supermarket and she will tell you that it should be a right!; for this or that. At some point in the near future the ignorant masses will watch the "richest country in the world" go bankrupt trying to fill their every need. With $60 trillion of unfunded liabilities already on the federal books (if you don't believe me check out I.O.U.S.A. on dvd) we might already be bankrupt and not even know it yet. Give me a line item budget of those states and I can guarantee you that in less than an hour I could find enough areas to cut to balance their budgets. It’s not that it can’t be done, it’s that no one has the political will to do it. Since we are at a point where the majority of citizens pay very little in taxes, politicians fear that this constituency group would end their political careers. The system so heavily favors the bottom 50 percent of earners that the political will to control spending is evaporating. How many times have we heard from people something like, ” In a country as rich as the USA, how can we not have free health care for all, or free this, or free that?” Just ask the enormously obese women with a food stamp card at the supermarket and she will tell you that it should be a right!; for this or that.
At some point in the near future the ignorant masses will watch the “richest country in the world” go bankrupt trying to fill their every need. With $60 trillion of unfunded liabilities already on the federal books (if you don’t believe me check out I.O.U.S.A. on dvd) we might already be bankrupt and not even know it yet.

]]> By: JBruce http://www.taxgirl.com/pa-nc-me-sign-on-to-higher-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-10657 JBruce Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:13:07 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/?p=3499#comment-10657 Interestingly enough, my state (Arkansas) is CUTTING taxes this year: the sales tax on groceries and prescription drugs is being reduced from 3% to 2%. So far as I can tell, no significant tax increases are in the works. Of course, the State also has cut or frozen funding in many areas. I'm in the State University system, and no one is getting raises this year. At one point faculty were told they might have to take a pay cut of up to 2%, but apparently the administration at my campus has found ways to avoid even that. Interestingly enough, my state (Arkansas) is CUTTING taxes this year: the sales tax on groceries and prescription drugs is being reduced from 3% to 2%. So far as I can tell, no significant tax increases are in the works.
Of course, the State also has cut or frozen funding in many areas. I’m in the State University system, and no one is getting raises this year. At one point faculty were told they might have to take a pay cut of up to 2%, but apparently the administration at my campus has found ways to avoid even that.

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