Given the terrible budget crunch looming for Florida leaders and the continuing cry for meaningful property tax relief, the timing could be ripe in 2008. So says state Rep. Kevin Ambler, R-Lutz, in a "Political Connections" interview airing Sunday on Bay News 9. The tax initiative on the ballot Jan. 29 is just a first step and further relief will "require a creative look at how we raise revenue,’’ such as sales tax exemptions and taxes on internet transactions.
"Politics are a product of the times we live in, and politics is always about timing,’’ Ambler said in the interview that airs at 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. "We are really going to be confronting a very serious trough in our economy...I don’t think anything’s off the table when people are going to be looking at very, very potent cuts that are going to cause a lot of folks to perchance lose their jobs."
So Ambler favors cutting taxes on those that own property (primarily the rich) and raising taxes on those that don't (primarily the poor). It really is kind of a reverse-Robin Hood type of thing they're pursuing here. It's immoral, it's un-American and it's dishonest. Republicans claim they favor "less taxes." Unless, of course, you are more likely to vote for the other side, then you get "more taxes."
No comments:
Post a Comment