“Sales tax is a fave, or a flat tax on income. “Let’s talk” about it.”
Don’t you get to vote on property taxes in Georgia and thereby have an input into the tax amount?
Would a sales tax or flat tax on income allow that?
If you had a sales tax would it be statewide or by county?
If it was statewide, would counties with more need for funding get help from counties with less need, to the detriment of the latter?
If it was by county, to the detriment of that county, would people make purchases outside their county to get a lower tax rate?
In GA most counties implement a SPLOST, or special purpose local option sales tax. These are usually just a cent or two for roads, special projects and similar. They are on top of state sales tax. We vote on those county by county.
Property tax millage rate is set by elected commissioner’s who must approve a balanced budget for every fiscal year. The value of one’s home and property is set by the tax assessor. Real estate taxes, corporate and personal are majority funders of county budgets.
For a ‘no property tax, just sales tax plan to
work the state would have to mandate the change happen for all.counties while keeping the requirements for balanced budgets. The problem with an all sales tax model is that some of our agriculture and timber counties have far too little commerce to go all sales tax and fund their county government. There’d have to be some method of grants from the state to make it work.
Revenue sharing would never work due to the immediate cries of rich v poor, black counties affected most. The usual. Devil is in the details. Might have to break out Neal Boortz’s Fair Tax book for his ideas.