Bingo, First. We have a sales tax. It works. We get all the money we need (or would if those MORONS would fix TennCare). We're one of nine states with no income tax. I seem to recall something similar happening in, I believe, NH. They went from one of the lowest taxed states to the highest."Well, any state that keeps it illegal is seriously, um, demented... you've gotta be pretty far right to make it illegal."
We didn't make it illegal. It's an example of actually following the constitution. Our constitution doesn't make provisions for an income tax, so we can't have one without an ammendment, which the people are unwilling to make. It wasn't allowed on a national level until an ammendment was passed, either.
And I would ask exactly WHY we'd be demented, not to increase the amount of power the government has over us when there's no need to?
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