MA: Mideast Budget 2012 (Statute)

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Income taxes are already extremely high from the federal government.

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needed revenue.  If you think the federal rates are too high than you should lobby for them to be lowered at the federal level. 

This is a pretty bad argument. To suggest that we should lobby to decrease Federal income taxes just so we can increase regional taxes is ridiculous. Whether it be that the Federal Government is taxing you 99% and the Region is taxing you 1% (or vice versa) you're still paying 100%. The only difference is which level of Government will waste the money.

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Let's not complicate the system more by adding more brackets and making the bottom 1% of people pay 1% of their income and the top 1% pay 99%. We should not be looking at income tax increases, nor should we be looking at gasoline tax increases. We cannot seek to make everyday life for middle class Mideasterners more difficult. When gas taxes increase, it does not harm the rich, only the middle class. We must be sane in approaching our budget shortfalls. At this point, we can only cut spending and wait until the economy improves.

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That's actually not a bad idea.

It actually is a bad idea, because even if we as a region tax the top income bracket about 75% of their income whilst the Federal Government is taxing them 25% of their income, then they have no money! Wee! Then we have loads of poor people and the economy isn't flowing and then we have to tax people to pay for a stimulus to try to get things going but incidentally no one has any money left then the Government has all the money and the citizens have no money so the Government is handing out money to all the poors to try and get the economy going and once it does we're gonna take all that money back? That sounds incredibly absurd to me. I can't possibly envision how that might work in any way, shape or form.

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What we need is a more progressive tax system with more tax brackets.

No, we don't.

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I think we should go to a flat tax rate, like most states in America use.

God bless.

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Changing my vote on Amendment #2 to Aye if I still can

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Changing my vote on Amendment #2 to Aye if I still can

There aren't any amendments at a vote right now.  (Right? - Did I forget to close one?)

I think he might be referring to the gas tax.

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Yeah Federal Taxes are pretty ridiculous.

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^ X and Gass are gonna have heart attacks lol

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I cannot.  At most, I'll accept 3 tax brackets.

Eeeeeeeeeeeyup.

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Nay

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Excellent.