Income Tax NOT Needed

Here are a couple of short clips from an article by Paul Guppy, Vice President for Research at Washington Policy Center, an independent non-partisan policy research organization in Washington state. For more information about the Washington Policy Center, visit washingtonpolicy.org.

Jun 16 2010

"This fall Washington voters will likely again be asked to pass a state income tax. Tax proponents want to impose a tax of 5 percent on people with yearly incomes over $200,000 and on couples with incomes over $400,000. The rate would rise to 9 percent at the $500,000 and $1 million levels....

"....a word about fairness. Tax proponents say it is fair to vote for an income tax. Really? Is it fair to ask 97 percent of people to impose a tax on the remaining 3 percent, especially when proponents promise the majority this is a tax they will never have to pay?

"It’s one thing to ask citizens to tax themselves for the common good, as happens with school levies, but the appeal by tax proponents isn’t about fairness — it’s about power. They say, “Let’s use government power to get money from those people.” This is a cynical, mean-spirited appeal to class differences and soak-the-rich envy, seeking to divide our communities along economic lines...."

To read the entire article go to: http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/north_sound/mar/opinion/96485924.html

My Comments
Mr Guppy is right on Constitutionally. We The People...doesn't mean just 3 percent of the people will pay for the burdens of a State government. If Washington voters want to vote themselves a state tax, it should be a fair tax for everyone, from the poor with only a "Widow's Mite" to the rich like Bill Gates.