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PenroseOnPolitics: Lumberjack Jay
18 Thursday Mar 2010
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18 Thursday Mar 2010
Posted in Uncategorized
made the same point as this cartoon, playing on Nixon’s phrase of “right-sizing” state government and calling it instead “blight sizing”. The writers summarized some suggestions from the Missouri Budget Project for increasing state revenue:
The editorial blasted Sinquefield’s “Fair Tax” and repeated what every Missourian ought to know: that everybody earning more than $9,000 a year pays the same state income tax rate. “If you make $9,000 you pay the same 6 percent as the guy who makes $9 million. Or $99 million.”
Furthermore, corporations don’t pay their share:
Nixon and his appointees in the various state agencies have been doing a fine job of looking for places to save money and keep the cutting of services to a minimum. But they’ve pretty much done all they can in that respect. Missouri ranks low as far as the services it affords us, typically in the thirties and forties. On public health spending, we’re number 50.
Following this “right sizing” is likely to make us number 49 or 50 in more categories. That’s not the way to attract businesses and jobs to Missouri.