2009 House Bill 51 (Repeal state taxes on income and expand scope of sales tax)

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Introduced by Rep. Bill Farmer (R) on January 6, 2009, to repeal all personal and business state income taxes including the limited liability entity tax. The bill also reduces the sales tax rate from 6% to 5%, broadens the tax to include certain services, and eliminates certain exclusions to the sales tax.
- Referred to the House Appropriations and Revenue Committee on January 7, 2009.

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1) Re: 2009 House Bill 51 (Repeal state taxes on income and expand scope of sales tax) [by jgough on January 13, 2009]

Not if the people demand a consumption tax only. We the people should pay for our government with what we have earned. Not what government decides what we should pay. If this country is created by the people and for the people then we the people should decide if we should have government take our money or are we willing to pay for taxes on what we purchase. Many are beginning to be aware that the government has been ripping us off and making our country financially and globally weaker. We are getting fed up. In this poor economy government employment rolls are increasing as are government salaries. This is fascism.

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2) Re: 2009 House Bill 51 (Repeal state taxes on income and expand scope of sales tax) [by Boone Republican on January 8, 2009]

Doing away with the state income tax sounds like an excellent idea. But we must be careful here. When one understands that there will be a ton of service taxes put in place of the state income tax then we will have a BIGGER problem. Beware the unintended consequences !!

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3) Re: 2009 House Bill 51 (Repeal state taxes on income and expand scope of sales tax) [by toebo on January 6, 2009]

I totally agree with doing away with the state income tax.

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