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you need to know this besides trying to elect one of their own mit romney
to the white house
gallagher seven of the trick up their sleeves this election
and bass in a sure that they're state taxes never go up again and the
loopholes that they have
stay forever
the plans carried out the form of ballot measures often are the names of things
like the taxpayer bill of rights laws to beaver
lapeer and a handful of states on election day the air aimed at making a
very difficult for state legislatures
to raise taxes
such measure on the balance is sick for a michigan a washington some agile law
just just think about this for me
or even more bizarre the law an amendment to the states constitution
the says in plain language
you may not take away any tax breaks the billionaires are large corporations have
without it getting at least a two-thirds vote in the legislature
but you may lay off teachers state troopers repeal milan wheels programs
cut off financial aid to colleges and scholars students
with a simple majority of legislators
the people of all for that
and then imagine that the law went a step further and said
you can't raise taxes on billionaires are corporations and you can't close any
of the two tax loopholes they use every day
but you can't easily raise fees on everyday working people
so they're paying more register cars to park on city streets are have the
garbage collection
does crazy right
that's exactly what california passed two years ago
what is already happen in states an organic colorado delaware and may soon
happen this election day in florida michigan washington state
and what people voting for these laws are constitutional announced nearly
always pastors ballot measures with highly deceptive advertising
well people think they're voting to keep their own taxes low
the brielle effect is to keep intact p intact tax breaks
and loopholes for the rich and corporations
while simultaneously wayy being out the ability to st
to deal with the economic downturn
basically billionaires are protected
but unemployed people are screwed
because when there's an economic downturn the state can spend in ny more
money to help unemployed people get over the hump
because to do so in in the state would have to even temporarily close the tax
loopholes that are used by corporations in the super-rich
and chris corporations the super-rich screen
that's increasing taxes that's unconstitutional you can't do that
without a super-majority
brower every state union except for my constitutionally requires a balanced
budget
that's always so hysterical to me when i hear people like
every parry and around their former governors
of you know
scott walker
alloy ballarat a balanced budget every air yet right you pass it requires that
studio it was so what do you deal with the only way to balance your budget
when you have to increase spending because of a recession and people are
unemployment you know and you got to dump length on cecil you've got increase
penny
what do you do
other then close tax loopholes on the rich of the corporations
but you can't do much other than cut services to everybody else
and given that the republican party has become holy the party the billionaires
in the big corporations are never going to a lot of democrats and closing even a
dollar in tax loopholes
for billionaires
grainy u_s_ department of labor
when a state is handcuff from raising taxes are cut in loopholes for the rich
in corporations to help us unemployed people
that state can't respond to an economic downturn
and therefore the downturn becomes an unemployment's spiral and if you look at
the states where this has happened with these plaza past
state after state after state
that's exactly what's happened over the last four years
what's happening here is the billionaires and transnational
corporations are sake in our states
dry
the welfare at they collect
rich people collect people like their ronnie the welfare he collects
in the form of his uh... his capital gains loophole for example
among other things i mean there's actual cash payments at the government built
the that our federal government makes
to companies that are owned by being capital
they'd end up in mit romney's paycheck to do it the welfare that is collected
and a former special tax breaks now right payments
is more than twice all the money spent on welfare for poor people in the united
states
and rich people wanna keep it that way
which is why they push so hard for the so-called taxpayer bill of rights laws
to be in place to protect billionaire corporate special interest taxpayers
if this was really just about taxes these two
blahs totally unnecessary
i mean you look at the last thirty years of money collected in the states you
compare the states with and without these laws basically there's virtually
no difference in the money fund in the state
the total money coming in
so what differences along a close pretty straightforward
in those states that protect giant tax loopholes for corporations the rich with
these these tabor laws these
taxpayer bill of rights laws
what goes up op-ed
to compensate for lower taxes
our fees that are paid by average working people
for example in their army was gutter massachusetts in order to avoid cutting
his own capital gains tax loophole that lets him
as a bank stir
pay less than half the tax rate of doctors and lawyers in a state
ronnie proposed uh... rather bizarre list that was compiled by andrew
kaczynski over it buzz feed
appealable line
yes year there right
miranti proposed as governor of
of uh... messages a fee that only blind people would have to pay
he proposed a one hundred dollar fee on the mentally handicapped
yes seriously
he provided us struck down a legislature
democratic legislature he likes to talk about how they all loved each other not
so much
in fact he issued over seven hundred vetoes while he was governor
any case he proposed a four dollar fee on anyone who had become sick with
tuberculosis
all you had to be for a box
he proposed a for a hundred-dollar biennial fiat yen teason first
responders if you are flash red lights to get through traffic you've gotta pay
up
wallace didn't pass
why media double the fees for both of the anti certificate
and if he had to pay if your ambulances equipped
with basic life support equipment
he increased hourly groups skating fees and ice rinks across the state
articulate what all of this so that he doesn't have to raise his own taxes
so he can keep intact
the tax loophole the capital gains tax loophole that he enjoys
he was behind a fee and working class barbers and hairdressers increasing
alleged prosecutor cutting lessons
ronnie also increase the licensing fees for nurses
plumbers
home inspectors funeral directors an auto mechanics he doubled the fee
for if you want to legally change your name
saw about increasing fees on working people to protect tax loopholes for rich
people like me around me
for a state with a super marjorie requirements seeking to balance its
budget is legislatively easier repeal emails and we'll program
layout state troopers a kindergarten teachers cut health care services for
seniors
or cut kaya college financial aid
that a close itct corporate x loophole
that's the other scam being drawn in this election then i just
figured you should know about it i mean it's it really is
pre-ceremony what's going on