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Related: About this forumWI Republicans propose 4% flat tax to income and adding sales tax to gas
It's a Republican and Scott Walker tax increase. Period.
In convoluted proposal, Republicans are proposing:
-creating a 4 percent flat income tax
-reduce the current 30.9 cents per gallon gas tax by 4 to 7 cents
-reduce the minimum markup on gasoline
-apply the state sales tax to gasoline
The Republican pitch is that all reductions will be passed on to the consumer (not likely) and is based on retail gas prices at current levels ($2.26/gallon). As gas prices rise the sales tax will impact consumers much more than the current per/gallon "tax".
It's all a scam to sneak in a flat income tax and pretend they aren't raising gas taxes (to satisfy King Walker).
This is a tax increase. This is not a tax decrease, Scholz said. Its kind of a smoke-and-mirrors gig.
Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, a member of the Joint Finance Committee, said he sees nothing in the proposal that he likes. Theyre taking the road crisis that we have to justify a policy of a flat tax, Erpenbach said. Its not going to work. ...
Todd Berry, president of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, said the proposal is a commentary on how far Assembly Republicans have to go to persuade Walker to support increased revenue for roads, especially when he previously said he would support a gas tax increase if there was an offsetting tax cut.
It is truly amazing and amusing the number of hoops they have to jump through to effectively raise the gas tax and index it, Berry said. You cant fault them for the creativity or the cleverness of it.
LINK to Wisconsin State Journal report
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)Unless there is some kind of exemption in this bill, people who now don't have to file because of their low amount of income would have to pay 4% of it in a new tax. I'm sure 4% means a lot more to people at the low end than those at the high end.
dembotoz
(16,740 posts)That should be fun
Will make the prepay pumps more exciting