Arkansas Gov.-elect Sarah Huckabee Sanders is already setting some ambitious goals for after her inauguration Tuesday, saying she wants to work on ending the state’s income tax.
“When I take office, we will work on responsibly phasing out the state income tax to reward work – NOT government dependency – and let you keep more of your hard-earned money in the failing Biden economy,” Sanders said in a Twitter post Thursday.
Nic Horton, founder and CEO of the new nonpartisan organization Opportunity Arkansas, thinks Sanders will keep that promise.
If the goal is to reduce the size, scope, and influence of government, and really, what other conservative tenet is more important than this, then starving them from the necessary funding is the smartest way to go. Too many governmental agencies exist only because money has been appropriated to fund them, ridiculous, I know.
The political battlefield is strewn with GOP leaders who fail to grasp the proper role of government (keeping the Visocoths outside our gates, infrastructure, and upholding the rights of its citizens, that’s it.) and their role in keeping that dog leashed.
I’m a huge fan of funding government on sales tax only. Way to go Sarah.
I’ve been in 2 states now that claimed they would do that, and didn’t. I’ll never forget Lowell Weicker who imposed an across the board income tax in CT after saying he wouldn’t, and the the RINO after him who said he would repeal it and didn’t. HE’s in jail for fraud and corruption, or was.
Great. Do property tax next.
A sales tax has been rejected at least 4 times in Oregon, but that doesn’t stop the politicians; they came up with a “privilege tax” that they slap on high-ticket things, like cars, boats, trailers (including utility trailers used for work). Now that they have gotten away with it, there is no end to what they will tax.
The other trick they did in Oregon: Property tax was used for schools, and was allocated to the district where the taxes were collected. But that wasn’t “fair”to the poor areas, so now it all goes to the state which decides how much each district gets.
Taxes will not be reduced, just re-targeted.
We DESPARATELY need her in Illinois
Safe promise to make. When the state legislature won’t pass the required legislation to do this she can blame them. Typical political bullshit grandstanding. They should give her what she asks for….and watch the panic a year later when they can’t even come close to paying for all the mandated spending.