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Louisiana is raising sales taxes as a result, so this effectively is just more switching the tax burden to lower income people.
That's just what the bootlickers want. They're happy to pay more in taxes as long as it punishes "undesirables"
I think most people have no understanding of taxes.
I remember a coworker some years ago fully believed we had a flat tax rate. That they just take 20% of your money. I had to explain progressive taxation to him.
We should be investing a lot more in public education.
We could lower taxes on the lower brackets, maybe, but we should be raising taxes that target the wealthy. Fix the "buy borrow die" strategy, too.
I had to explain how the progressive tax bracket works on a per-dollar-earned basis to my 65 year old mother last month. Turns out she had thought the different brackets were the amount paid in taxes on all of the income for the year based on year end totals, which is why she assumed the billionaires were getting hit with 37%+ tax and how it was unfair that poor people paid 10-20% and why she has been advocating and voting for a flat tax. She still isn’t changing her mind about anything but at least she now understands how each dollar is taxed I guess.
The lack of public education is what makes "opportunities" like a felon making it into the White House or any of the other batshit insane going-ons possible, and those that benefit would have it no other way.
Yes, we should. Sadly, in these Republican led states, the GOP has been gutting the education system since at least the Reagan era and they've been breathtakingly successful at it.
Unfortunately the wealthy already pay the lions share of taxes. What needs to happen is, we need less waste. So much spending is stolen by private companies via contracts that it's a joke. We're the wealthiest nation on the planet, yet we seem to always be broke.
As a condition of receiving federal funds, states with budget deficits shouldn't be allowed to cut income taxes; it's essentially passing off those costs to taxpayers in other states.
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