Talk Business Poll: Voters Not Sold On Tax Hikes For Roads
The latest Talk Business-Hendrix College Poll reveals that voters aren’t sold on two separate tax hikes for roads. To read more, click here.
Obamacare Biggest Tax-Increase in Twenty Years
“Can a people tax themselves into prosperity? Can a man stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle?” –Winston Churchill, Speech at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England (1904)
Many are calling yesterday’s healthcare ruling upholding Obamacare as a “tax” the largest tax-increase in history. It may very well be that, if implemented, by the end of this decade we will look back on Obamacare and its bureaucracy and see that it certainly was the largest tax-increase in U.S. history. However, Politifact.com is reporting that, at the very least, Obamacare is the largest tax-increase in two decades.
Eliminate the Used Car Tax
An article by John Lyon at the Arkansas News Bureau caught my attention yesterday. It was regarding the used car tax—more specifically, how a new law that raises the sales-tax emption on used cars just isn’t enough, according to a local car dealer. We agree. As a matter of fact, we think the used car tax should be completely eliminated.