Heh, here in Missouri, instead of cutting taxes to compete against Kansas, which is drawing Missouri business at an alarming rate (at least from the Missouri side of the border), some numbskull government committee proposed a joint program with Kansas that would cause Kansas to stop cutting taxes and giving breaks to businesses for moving there.
I never did hear Kansas’s response; I am sure that whatever it was it was hard to hear over the uproarious laughter from Topeka.
Sorry. Taxing too much is a problem. But so is borrowing too much. Or running too much of a deficit.
Truth is, it really doesn’t matter which way the government funds excessive spending, they are all destructive to the health of the economy and of society in general.
IOW: they don’t need to cut taxes, they need to cut spending. And they need to cut government.
It has the capability, willingness, capacity and propensity to become its own nation.
I hope that happens and I hope it happens soon.
Cuomo (or any democrat) cut taxes? Ha....
They need to raise the import tariffs. State tax cuts are not likely to do much except pull business from other states. The real problem is international in scope.
Let’s go back to USConstitution and let the vast majority of tax dollars go into the state coffers, from the citizens of each state.
DC steals the vast majority of state dollars with the missing 10th Amemdment, 17th ending State based Senate, the -Reserve- and the resulting _income_tax_.
Somebody needs to tell Tax, and Spend O’Malley that in Maryland. He is running folks out of this State as fast as he can.
Here are few suggestions that would cost the taxpayers NOTHING!
1) Let any child of any age take the GED. If they pass award them an official diploma from their local government high school. This would immediately make them eligible for college scholarship aide, admission to community college or university, admission to a trade training program, or work. Having an official diploma would make admission to the military straight forward.
Savings to taxpayers: More than $11,000/ child for each year he is not attending the local K-12 socialist-entitlement and single-payer school.
Benefit to the child: Several years of extra time working. This could add up to as much as a quarter of a million dollars ( or more) in income earned over a lifetime.
Benefit to the state: More taxes collected.
2) Backpack funding of the child:
The funding should follow the child regardless of the school setting that his parents choose.
3) Allow dame schools:
There are many very successful homeschooling moms and dads. They should be allowed to teach other children in their homes. The health and safety requirements should not be any more rigorous than that imposed on home-based day care.