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Comment on The Road To Hell Runs Right Through The Georgia Legislature - Part 1 by Max Lancaster

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Comment on The Road To Hell Runs Right Through The Georgia Legislature - Part 1 by Bill Simon

Bill Simon — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:10:43 +0000

Anne,

I appreciate the correction…I was giving the Senate and Casey Cagle as large a cushion as I could.

With a 6% top-rate income tax burden, the amount of tax money that gets “reduced” over 5 years becomes even tinier.

As far as the news that Georgia’s 0.7% below the national average…that’s hardly due to the current leadership in the state senate, house, or governor’s mansion.

The point of the article was to demonstrate that a 10% income tax reduction over 5 years amounted to about $50 per year, while the chance to eliminate the car ad valorem tax amounted to something on the order of $200 PER YEAR…so, $1000 over 5 years, and savings every year after that.

Comment on The Road To Hell Runs Right Through The Georgia Legislature - Part 1 by Anne Economista

Anne Economista — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:35:54 +0000

Re the Tax Foundation numbers you cite, you seem to have misread the linked report. The 10.3% figure is the total burden of all state and local taxes in Georgia as a percent of personal income - not income taxes. This includes income, property, sales and excise taxes. Also, if you’ve ever filled out a GA income tax form, you may have noticed that the top marginal rate in GA is 6%, so there is no way the average rate could be 10.3%. Finally, you neglected to mention what the Tax Foundation said in regard to that 10.3% tax burden - that is, that it is .7% below the national averages and ranks GA 32nd out of the fifty states in total state and local tax burden.

Just thought you’d want the facts.

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Terrence McNulty — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:55:54 +0000

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