Posted on 10/15/2011 8:23:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Mine would see a little increase as well which would not stop me from voting for him. My biggest concern is that the removal of interest deductions will collapse the real estate market even further than it has been collapsed. This, in turn, means construction remains dead and thereby the economy as a whole (because construction is such a large component) remains dead. The other positive portions of his plan will not be able to overcome this killer.
“I also imagine that those over 65 would be exempt from paying the 9% sales tax.” I am over 65 and in general do not support absolving us from taxes. Why should we not pay sales taxes? Most of us are better off than younger people just getting started and/or raising families. Those families are the ones that I am most concerned with.
I was talking about the energy production. California refuses to build their own power plants or refineries and that put the burden of the infrastructure costs on WA and Oregon. We not only get the negative impacts of the power plants, transmission lines and refineries, but we end up paying for it.
WA state doesn’t need any more power. We have more than we can use from hydro electric dams that are not even operating at full capacity.
There are probably those trying to shut those damns down, too. Because of the yellow-tailed tadpole or some such crap.
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