The Kansas state Senate has voted to lower the sales tax from 6.3% to 4.95% on groceries only – other purchases remain at the same rate – trying to ease the burden on middle class and poor families.It passed by a vote of 25-14. The plan also cuts the state income tax. Now it goes to the House, but its fate there is not very promising. Governor Sam Brownback would like the sales tax to stay at the current rate to make up for income tax cuts last year and the House is inclined to do what the governor wants. The situation has some urgency as the Kansas legislature is working overtime in Topeka to get business completed before their summer break. Aw, poor babies.Enter State Rep. Jeff Melcher, the leader of the opponents of the Senate’s plan. His arguments against the tax rollback are not based on economics, however. He’s worried that lower prices on food will move the poor to buy more… food. Let that one roll around your brain for a minute, I’ll wait. Your head still in one piece?
in light of all that is plaguing the country now another right winger pops up his whack a mole head and alienates more than usual, Sandy victims all the disasters tha affect families of both partys. they can't help themselves let alone us.
there is an ever growing plethera of things that could be cut that wouldallow theses social programs to continue to serve the people, guess that's why the republicans are against it, they serve the people something they are unfamiliar with, serving those who elected them and they pledged to serve.
“It seems to me we are encouraging the behavior of purchasing food and discouraging the behavior of purchasing anything else.”That’s less than a nickel on a dollar. He’s worried that the poor will use that extra nickel to buy, what, another stalk of celery? Oh my goodness, a ten-dollar grocery bill will have an extra 50 cents, you better watch out or those poor people might buy another can of corn! And you have to understand that just that extra little bit of energy might give them enough to go vote or realize how badly they are being treated. Who knows what could come of that? And what else could they possibly buy – a piece of bubble gum? A broken crayon? There just isn’t much one could buy with a nickel on the dollar. Talk about out of touch!He did give another reason: it will add “complexity” for the retailers. Complexity? Like that they might have to push a different button on the cash register? Most states have different tax rates for different items already and somehow the western world hasn’t dissolved into chaos, with confused cashiers weeping hysterically, faced with the choice of which button to push. Good grief, what an idiot.Moderate Republican (they actually have one of these in Kansas!) State Rep. Barbara Bollier told The Huffington Post:“I have no words. That’s just beyond comprehension to me. We each get to think what we want to think. But this is so far out there that I can’t believe someone said it. It’s frightening. That’s what it is.”
DITTO, ever notice how the republicans complain about how many pages and do we expect them to read them, now we are suppose to be concerned that retailers who already charge a mark up as high as double sometimes are going to endure complexities? now that competes for the first dumbest thing i heaver heard. we will see how many Americans reside within the borders in 2014
