What they said
A good op-ed piece today on Senator Kim Hendren’s (R) idea to take some of the “surplus” to refund part of the surcharge we been paying these last 3 years. Bottom line, Hendren’s idea should be on the bottom rung of the fund chain, pardon the pun, ax the grociery tax first.
Yes, Senator Hendren, we’d all like to have that surtax money back. But we’d much rather see the Ledge repeal the sales tax on groceries—which hits the poorest the hardest. Justice is more important than a windfall of a refund. First, ax the food tax. Then we can talk about the surtax.
Posted on December 13th, 2006 by George Sand
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Comment from LWood
Time: December 14, 2006, 12:41 am
Senator Hendren is simply maintaining his conservative, NWA credentials. His Party was the big losers. He knows it. The grocercy tax, if any tax, will be reduced first. His RW running buddy, A$a, made the case for axing the grocery tax. The surtax hits people who can afford it, the food tax does not.
Comment from KOinNWA
Time: December 14, 2006, 3:55 am
The fastest growing, alnd probably richest per capita country has not one Representative in the Legislature that represents the controlling party. Not one.
NWA has been isolated politically by the RW thugs here. The state resents NWA for its growth and arrogance and lastly for the Shiite God Squad Republicans they send to LR every 2 years who are so obsessed with feeding the relgious right base - then gays, abortion and mexicans that rarely does a NWA Legislator do much more. Few exceptions - Bisbee and depending on the day, the erratic Hendren.
What was he thinking? Ax the tax Kim and shut up about the crummy surplus - probably pandering to the money folks and business folk.
When I hear whinning about taxes in Arkansas, I say go live in about 30 states thats tax structure is almost double. Starting with our pathetically low real estate tax.
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