Gov. Riley and Taxes

Gov. Riley was the one who is wanting to phase out the taxes on groceries and also wanted the rebate checks to be tax free, along with some other members of the legislators.

This is a tax increase that would affect everybody. Someone with great math skills has already posted examples of how this would work. Now, if they would just do away with tax on groceries without messing with anything else...... I would be all for it.

Skymaster is exactly right on this one. How many times has the government done anything to help folks out and it just be that? If the tax on groceries is lifted think about what kind of economic impact that will have on the states revenue. That money will be made up in other areas, whatch your state income tax go up, whtch your tags, license, and other taxes go up as well.

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Originally posted by skymaster:
This is a tax increase that would affect everybody. Someone with great math skills has already posted examples of how this would work. Now, if they would just do away with tax on groceries without messing with anything else...... I would be all for it.

skymaster, Do you think Gov. Riley might have just a tad of liberal in him?

Riley may have a lot of liberalism in his blood. He tried to give us the largest state income tax increase ever, but was voted down by the voters. Riley is also behind the incredible property tax increases we are seeing across the state. From what I've heard, we haven't seen anything like the property taxes that are in the near future.

You can't fund government without money....

If you don't want medicare, we can definitely stop paying in, but we will no longer have that program.

Things in life are not free, and some taxation is required. It is the amount of taxation, where it is going, and who it benefits that we all should question.

The State has enough funds coming in to run the government and our schools, or were you suggesting we convert completely to socialism?

People gripe and complain about taxes but then gripe and complain when their medicare won't pay enough or their school system has to start cutting the budget and eliminate certain programs.

It's fine with me if things get cut and our taxes are lower, but people need to understand that some things are not FREE. The state has funds coming in but not enough to completely eliminate all taxes.

The state has no appreciable source of revenue save taxes, which they literally extort from the public. I believe it was Alexis de Tocqueville who posited that our democracy would last until the legislators figured out they could buy votes to keep themselves in power with other people's money. I'm certain I'm misquoting, but the essence is there.

The social programs the state says it HAS to provide are how they gain the gratitude and dependence of certain classes of voters. If they would do what they should do...that is, only a very little (defense, roads, police)...our taxes would be less and governmental intrusion in our lives would be more or less tolerable. I would absolutely love it if the government deleted virtually all of the social programs and lowered taxes. Then I could choose who I would help, rather than being forced to pay for liver transplants for illegal immigrants.

J. M. Cameron, in "The Anatomy of Military Merit" expressed that it wasn't the government's job to take care of the unlucky or the stupid. To a very great degree, I completely agree. It is the responsibility of the family to do that. The government should stick to the basics of governing. They're starting to drift into "ruling", and that becomes unacceptable.