AP Enterprise: Local tax votes do well nationwide

Associated Press ^ | 10/28/2010 | Robin Hindery

[Menehune56]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Forget all the talk about voters being fed up with high taxes: In hundreds of cities and counties across the country, they are raising them. An Associated Press review of local election results found they boosted taxes to help pay for schools, public safety and other services they believe are essential to their communities.

[Menehune56]

Just in time for next week's election. See, people don't mind paying taxes! /s

[griswold3]

47% of US citizens now depend on government. That leaves the productive members supporting them because the government has no way to generate revenue on its own.
As is always the case, the producers will find a way to reduce or avoid exposure to higher taxes meaning lower revenues. It is the duty of every American taxpayer to remind the government/voters who holds the purse strings.

The supreme court has said “the legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sutherland, Gregory vs. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465, 1965.

“Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as
possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the
treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes.
Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister
in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone
does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any
public duty to pay more than the law demands.”
Source: in the case of Gregory v. Helvering 69 F.2d 809, 810 (2d Cir. 1934), aff’d, 293 U.S. 465, 55 S.Ct. 266, 79 L.Ed. 596 (1935)

[JimVT]

This is more of a propaganda statement than a scientific poll.

I’d like to see a list of the cities and the average family income for each.

[Truth is a Weapon]

I don’t really give a rip if some loons in another state or county or city want to tax themselves to death to indulge their socialist fantasies. That is the way that our founders designed their system. People are free and can do what they want. And free people can flee high tax jurisdictions.

What I will fight against is using the gun of the federal government to confiscate my property or money to fund deadbeats in another state. That is not freedom. That is slavery. What is slavery? Isn’t it the forced extraction of another person’s services for less than market value? Our horrible era of chattel slavery was exactly that. The slaves were given food, clothing and shelter for their work. But the exchange was not voluntary and was not at full value. People wake up. The line between freedom and servitude is not a bright line. We must fight the war while we are still somewhat free.