Facing a gaping $3.7 billion budget hole for the year ahead, Governor Perdue has been busy cutting everything in sight in an attempt to balance the ledger. Asked about tax increases in a recent press gaggle, she confirmed our suspicion that she's going into the fight with one hand tied behind her back:
"At this point," she said, "I don't know how to spell tax increase. It is off my plate."
With that in mind, I am pleased to offer this remedial word finder game, which may be helpful to our spelling-challenged chief executive.
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My primer on tax fairness
Add in a top tier bracket for the super rich, with a rate that is 1% higher than the current top rate. That should pull in at least a cool billion. At the same time, cut the corporate tax rate to zero. That's right, eliminate it completely, as part of a long term strategy to eliminate corporate privilege as well.
Read more: http://bluenc.com/cut-corporate-taxes-zero-raise-rates-multimillionaires#ixzz18wiJsr48
Just in case you can't read backwards
Some puzzles just solve themselves
Couldn't have come up with this if I had tried.
Love it
Words can be powerful, even by themselves.
Would you explain how eliminating corp income tax
helps? Maybe I'm stooopid.
Stan Bozarth
Two ways
Negotiating chip ... first and foremost.
But it also moves the needle, in my view, toward a future where corporations have neither rights nor responsibilities. I am an advocate for the elimination of corporations altogether ... and in some weird way, this could be a step in that direction.
The rates would have to be structured so that the loss of revenue from corporate taxes would be more than offset by the increase in personal taxes on the wealthiest. That's a statistical modeling problem that should be easy enough to work out.