...or maybe he is, in a world where Republicans seem to act like Demoncraps anymore.
Kenley, who is chairman of the Indiana Senate Committee on Appropriations, seems to think than imposing sales tax on Internet retailers "will be an ideal replacement for the inheritance, or estate, tax."
Indiana would lose about $165 million a year, starting in 2020, if lawmakers eliminate the state's inheritance tax, according to estimates.
WRONG. Indiana would not "lose" anything, because that money would remain in the pockets of families and continue to support the state's economy in productive rather than regressive ways. (The only loss would be to legislators, who wouldn't have as much of the public's money to waste anymore.)
Why is it that every time somebody proposes eliminating a tax, it's characterized as a "loss", while when new taxes are proposed it's always a win for everybody?
That's OUR MONEY they're talking about. While constituent wallet hoovering is certainly an accepted sport both in the legislature and in Congress, the fact is that eliminating taxes is a WIN and instituting new ones is a LOSS for you and me and the guy down the street who has a safe full of guns and a basement full of canned goods, just as much as it is for the lady down the street who thinks we don't spend enough on helping the homeless and the poor and the young woman in the apartment complex up the road who has three kids by as many fathers. Oh, and for building mass transit so she can get to a job that probably doesn't exist because the guy who runs the company went out of business because he couldn't afford the online sales tax hit.
You don't raise taxes in a down economy.
Maybe Sen. Kenley's constituents might want to consider that the next time he's up for re-election.
