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O'Brien House Promotes General Sales Tax

by: elwood

Thu Jan 19, 2012 at 18:18:17 PM EST
Dean already wrote about the constitutional amendment that the House passed this week. It bans a state income tax.

If you've followed this political football for a couple of generations you know that isn't the formula. The Pledge is to block a "broad-based tax," defined as either an income tax or a sales tax.

That isn't what O'Brien's amendment does. It prevents the people we elect in future years from resorting to an income tax only. It leaves a sales tax right there on the table, needing only a simple majority of the House and Senate to pass.

If you think the Pledge and writing tax law into the Constitution are clumsy and shortsighted moves, of course you don't like this week's vote.

But if you support the Pledge, the proposed amendment has to disappoint you. By blocking off only one of the two big revenue raisers, it makes the remaining choice much more likely as budgets get tight.

The big question raised by this week's vote: why do O'Brien and his Republican supporters like the sales tax so much??
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The taxes are collected by businesses and forwarded periodically (0.00 / 0)
to the state.  In the interim, one supposes, the business gets the benefit of the float.  It's even possible that the state lets business keep a share for the 'service.' That would be my guess.
Isn't that typically true of (0.00 / 0)
payroll taxes, too?
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Right on. (4.00 / 1)
Me, yesterday:

NH Media Assignment Desk: Ask #NHGOP  why they're not adding sales tax to constitutional amendment. #ObviousGOTVPloy #DishonoringConstitution


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Simple (4.00 / 4)
The GOP is working on an Amendment to raise your property tax!

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A sales tax (4.00 / 4)
hits lower income people much more than higher income people.  A sales tax is a more regressive tax.  It's just another gimmick to further hit the 99%.
To quote Teddy Roosevelt's first Supreme Court appointee, (4.00 / 3)
"...a constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory."

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