Comments on: Yes on 1 http://dav.sadowl.com/archives/72/ Now with 54% more statistics. Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:30:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jen http://dav.sadowl.com/archives/72/comment-page-1/#comment-15583 Jen Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:48:33 +0000 http://dav.sadowl.com/?p=72#comment-15583 You make one major assumption here that is not addressed here. There's nothing stating that by eliminating the income tax there will be an increase in property taxes. (I could be missing something but...) Is this something that would have to be addressed once this measure passes? How long would it take to get a higher property tax through-- and is that something that would even happen? My second question is why does increasing property taxes encourage living efficiently? Is it not true that two people living in an identical house in 2 different parts of the state might pay different property taxes just because of their location and the "value" of the property? How does that make people live more efficiently? Also, your statement "Nobody has to pay a 3rd party company anything to handle their property or sales taxes" shouldn't imply that paying someone is necessary to file your income taxes, because it is not. Every year I have done my taxes on my own without paying anyone. But you're right...nobody has to pay a 3rd party company to get this done. Places like H&R Block prey upon people who can afford to pay this fee (minimal to some). Now don't get me wrong. I am not arguing that this process is not labor intensive. It sucks, but the issue of taxes being too difficult doesn't have to be solved by cutting this tax in half. Instead, I would fix the problem and make it easier for taxes to be filed. Did you know that the Fed actually has all of the information it needs to give you a bill or to write you a check? Wouldn't it be nice if they could do that along with our states?!?! I just want to point out that I am just trying to raise some questions here. I already made my decision to vote no because after reading the full text to the question I concluded that this was not thought out well enough to make this cut happen at this time. I'm not saying that an income tax cut would be bad, I'm just saying that this question has not addressed all of the necessary points before such a question should even be posed in front of our state! You make one major assumption here that is not addressed here. There’s nothing stating that by eliminating the income tax there will be an increase in property taxes. (I could be missing something but…) Is this something that would have to be addressed once this measure passes? How long would it take to get a higher property tax through– and is that something that would even happen?

My second question is why does increasing property taxes encourage living efficiently? Is it not true that two people living in an identical house in 2 different parts of the state might pay different property taxes just because of their location and the “value” of the property? How does that make people live more efficiently?

Also, your statement “Nobody has to pay a 3rd party company anything to handle their property or sales taxes” shouldn’t imply that paying someone is necessary to file your income taxes, because it is not. Every year I have done my taxes on my own without paying anyone. But you’re right…nobody has to pay a 3rd party company to get this done. Places like H&R Block prey upon people who can afford to pay this fee (minimal to some). Now don’t get me wrong. I am not arguing that this process is not labor intensive. It sucks, but the issue of taxes being too difficult doesn’t have to be solved by cutting this tax in half. Instead, I would fix the problem and make it easier for taxes to be filed. Did you know that the Fed actually has all of the information it needs to give you a bill or to write you a check? Wouldn’t it be nice if they could do that along with our states?!?!

I just want to point out that I am just trying to raise some questions here. I already made my decision to vote no because after reading the full text to the question I concluded that this was not thought out well enough to make this cut happen at this time. I’m not saying that an income tax cut would be bad, I’m just saying that this question has not addressed all of the necessary points before such a question should even be posed in front of our state!

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