Mar 15
The Point Is…Misplaced Tax Policy
2009 at 9:49 am | posted by Rep. Craig Frank 5 comments
The Associated Press has written a more comprehensive article on targeted tax policy (and Caffeine and Tobacco products, too).
Read this posting yesterday in the Daily Herald. Link HERE.
5 Responses to “The Point Is…Misplaced Tax Policy”
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March 16th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Really? Were you just trying to get yourself in the news or something? Do you plan on persuing this and taxing caffeine?
March 16th, 2009 at 8:29 am
If this is a joke I’m waiting for the punchline.
March 16th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Al. You hear the punchline every time to pay your taxes.
And, if your’e not laughing now…wait until your taxes increase in a down economy…then…maybe it’ll be “funny.”
Every payroll (personal income tax incrementalization), every escrow payment on your home (property tax incrementalization), every rent payment you make (your landlord doesn’t pay), every time you buy food (sales tax incrementalization), every time you purchase clothes to wear, every time you flip a light on in your home or office, every time you flush the WC, every time you fill your gas tank, every time you turn on your TV (hopefully you have obatained your gov’t subsidized converter so you can keep watching gov’t mandated digital TV…it is a nicer picture), every time you purchase alcohol (sales and alcohol stamp tax), every time you feel like taking a drag on a butt (sales and 69.5 cents per pack stamp tax), every time, every time, every time…
The frog’s being boiled…incrementally…it’s less noticeable that way.
Hey, here’s a good idea. Let’s stop “incremental” taxing and make everyone pay their assessments in bulk on the MONDAY BEFORE THE FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER IN EVEN NUMBERED YEARS!
March 16th, 2009 at 9:20 am
if you’re agreeing with me you’re doing it in a wierd way. I am getting your view that the current tax policy is horrible but then you go and defend your “tongue in cheek” tax study proposal. If you want to make a point don’t tip toe around it. Jump in there with both feet and say our tax system sucks and this is what we need to do to fix it. That’s what you were elected to do, it’s your job. Mine is to kick you in the butt till you do it.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Every year (for the past six years) I’ve spent my personal and “public” time working on ways to fix our state’s broken tax system. Check my record. I’m the guy on the Hill, for good or evil, along with Wayne Harper, John Dougall, Wayne Neiderhauser, Howard Stephenson, and a few others, who are constantly working on making our system simpler, more manageable, and less onerous.
Sorry, if you don’t “get” my quirky sense of humor…my wife says I need to work on that.