Posted on 03/11/2014 2:11:59 PM PDT by DallasBiff
The net for Ohioans is a $174 million tax cut over the next three years.
Kasich proposes funding an 8.5 percent income tax-cut for all tax brackets — a $2.2 billion reduction over the next three years — by raising the state’s tax on a pack of cigarettes 60 cents, from $1.25 to $1.85, while also taxing other tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, at an equivalent rate. That would generate about $850 million during the next three years.
Kasich also wants to raise the Commercial Activity Tax on gross receipts for businesses from 0.26 percent to 0.3 percent, a roughly 15-percent increase providing $743 million in three years; and implement a gradual 2.75 percent tax on oil and gas extracted from horizontally drilled and fractured wells, generating $874 million in three years.
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Add to that the braggarts, the bossy people, the know-it-alls, the egotists, the nosy ones, and those who think they have some zealous right to tell others what they should or should not do.
And there are more that others could add to that list.
I've known people who smoked and lived beyond ninety years. Though I smoked, my three children were born healthy---weighed 8'5", 8'6" and 8'7".
My mother and dad smoked and I arrived at 8'13".
Again, I am not promoting smoking at all, but there is another side of the statistics which is never mentioned.
No, I understand perfectly well that you and people like you are trying to stand in the way of an income tax cut for millions of hard working Ohioans because your filthy effing habit is so GD important to you.
uhhh sounds like you are promoting smoking. Worse, using anecdotal evidence, you are suggesting smoking while pregnant isn't a risky behavior.
The evidence is clear. Smoking while pregnant puts your fetus at risk.
That said, glad your babies were fine.
First of all, if you don’t live in Ohio, it has nothing to do with you. Secondly, it appears to me that a group of exceptionally selfish drug addicts is attempting to prevent millions of Ohioans from getting an income tax cut. That’s crossing a line right there. How dare anyone condemn John Kasich for what he’s doing let alone impede him? I say it again, you are crossing a line.
I remember it well ... The Whiskey Rebellion.
You know what? You’re right. I don’t smoke and I live in Virginia, a state that has chosen to keep cig taxes low. Our retailers and tax coffers will benefit from Ohio’s folly.
Keep jacking up those sin taxes, Ohio!
I am very happy with this proposal.
My income taxes go down, the fracking taxes are raised but still below neighgoring states. The gross revenue tax is really just a sales tax on goods and services and is only barely increased.
And I don’t smoke.
I have an acquaintance that needs a lung transplant and spends all day tethered to an oxygen mask.
She finally quit smoking when they told her she could not be on the list for a lung transplant until she quit.
She finally quit. Maybe too late though.
“Its not magic. Raise taxes, lose revenue.”
He is cutting income taxes and raising cig taxes.
If that results in more income and less smoking I AM 100% FOR IT.
Like I said, I’m not a liberal scumbag.
This thread will come in handy when FReepers whine about someone wanting to tax behavior.
You may be an absolutist idiot who fails to realize that doing your best in an imperfect world is better than sitting back and doing nothing.
And you’re nothing but liberal garbage.
You have decided that you are perfection and any deviation from your wonderful thoughts are liberal garbage.
Enjoy living in your fantasy land.
And I apologize in advance for not being up to your standards your holiness for you must be God’s one true representative on Earth.
30 pieces of silver.
Most FReepers are, along with most conservatives. There is a group of people however, that if you tax their addiction, you've touched the third rail.
But will be the among first ones to whine when the increased tobacco tax no longer covers the tax cut because of decreased smoking and taxes ave to be raised.
He’s raising some in order to lower the personal income tax, so it sounds to me like it’s a wash. He shifting money around for some reason
His results so far say that it’s a wait-and-see proposition.
I’ve experienced a lot of Ohio governors and they are a long string of failure. Our last republican governor, Taft, was convicted in court over money issues. Seems they decided to invest in coins for the pension fund...a really odd investment for a pension fund....and then the coins walked. Strickland, Voinovich, Celeste....terrible.
Good point!!!
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