Well, not this time. ...we tossed a Supreme Court justice
People back East in Western New York, Eire county, are livid, hammering the county legislature for trying to raise the county sales tax by 1/2 of one percent. The county Commissioner had an approval rating of just 9%. It wouldn't seem possible that it could go any lower. Recently his approval rating reached a measly 5%. Not a snowball's chance in he!! that he'll be reelected.
We have the power. We just need to realize it and use it.
I heard a similar scenario happened in Wisconsin dealing with the state sales tax. I think the visible goods and services would remain about the same with only minimal swing up or down.
"I heard a similar scenario happened in Wisconsin dealing with the state sales tax. I think the visible goods and services would remain about the same with only minimal swing up or down."
Perhaps the most vivid example of the power of the average voter/taxpayer is what happened in Tennessee a couple of years ago. Tennessee hasn't had an income tax for some time - they use a sales tax as their primary revenue source. Some in the state leglislature decided that the state needed an income tax, too. A local talk show host got wind of the fact that a bill was being debated to do just that. He alerted his listeners and they showed up in mass at the state capital. The guards locked them out, but they raised so much hell outside that the legislators could hear them and the measure failed - I think by a fairly wide margin. Believe it or not, legislators do listen to constituents, but constituents have to speak up loud and clear.