Arkansas Blog

This will NOT work:
"House Speaker Benny Petrus, D-Stuttgart, says repealing the tax might not be the best way to help Arkansans in lower-income brackets.

Instead, Petrus proposes income tax cuts, which he says would help the working poor while still collecting the tax on groceries from higher-income Arkansans and visitors to the state."

There are many very low income people that DO NOT file because they don't have to, since they earn so little. They also don't pay taxes, so cuts wouldn't make a bit of difference to them. They will not be helped with this, nor will those on SS.

If they want to get the tourists, then raise the taxes on restaurants, camping supplies, and the other things the tourists use.

some facts from another thread....

If poor people don't pay state income taxes then there are a lot of them breaking the law:

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If your income range is between $0 and $3,399, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 1%.
If your income range is between $3,400 and $6,799, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 2.5%.
If your income range is between $6,800 and $10,299, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 3.5%.
If your income range is between $10,300 and $17,099, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 4.5%.
If your income range is between $18,100 and $28,499, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 6%.
If your income range is $28,500 and over, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 7%.
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You would only have to earn
about 2 to 3 thousand dollars
a year to pay more in income
taxes than grocery taxes.
AND if you make that little, you
should be getting food stamps.

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If you get food stamps, you don't pay the grocery tax.

Looks like the non-poor wants the money back instead of giving more back to the poor.

The people of Arkansas were told they'd get taxes cut from groceries. That is what we should get. Government hocus pocus from a used car dealer is not what we were promised.

Mounds of paperwork is not what we were promised. A little present at the end of the year is not what we were promised.

Leave us not have more Bush-like unfunded mandate bullshit coming from the mouths of Democrats. They did the promising, now let's see them deliver.

Mounds of paperwork? Hey if that's what you need
to think to justify your greed then go right ahead.

I think Bush got elected twice promising to eliminate
the estate tax and cut taxes for the rich even more.
Will you be upset about that not occuring?

I'll tell you now....I did not get a Bush tax cut and I will not have to worry about the Estate Tax unless I win the OK Lottery. Pretending I'm rich and greedy is pretty silly too.

Would you like to share with us your fear of the promised grocery tax cut? How will this effect you? The issue seems to be a Beebe in your bonnet. S'plain please.

I never said you were rich DBI, but you are not poor.
I said you seem determined to get your groceries tax
free. To me that is greedy. I would save nothing if
rebates were given based
on income. I would save hundreds if we all got a cut as you want.

I'd rather see only the poor get the benefits. If you
just have to get a piece, then keep whining.

You know good and well the tax on my groceries is not my main interest here. It's kinda Karl Rove-ish to keep repeating that charge over and over like a Fox News reporter. Why not tell us your real interest in breaking a promise to the poor?