TENN: Some upset no women, minorities on tax panel (STACKED PRO-INCOME TAX)

The Tennessean ^ | 1/4/03 | Bonna de la Cruz

[GailA]

A women's group is upset that no female has been named to a tax study commission that will recommend to state lawmakers how Tennesseans should be taxed.

The chairman of the panel, Nashville businessman Nelson C. Andrews, who had no input on the selections, said he would have preferred to include women. When told that the panel included no racial minorities either, Andrews expressed disappointment.

[GailA]

Sounds like the RATS are being a tad sexist and racist by excluding women and minorities from this STACKED PRO-INCOME TAX panel. You can't count Spendquist as a GOP, he's a RAT in RINO clothing. Watch for Boss Hogg to appoint a token black woman to the panel so he can't be called a sexist/racist.

[GailA]

Original story Mash here

[Tacis]

This is unfortunate because women and minorities have great natural skill and ability when it comes to matters of taxes and taxation.

Hey, the dems hate blacks! The racist dems aren't going to give any power to black guys. The dems want blacks to stay where they've been for 50 years, under the boot heels of the dem precinct captains.

Oh, sure, they can be on the committee for planning the Black History Month activities and, maybe, appointed to some minor posts but the dems don't want blacks to have power. If the dems allow blacks to have power, they might use it to exact from the dems in proportion to what they give the dems.

[Mike4Freedom]

They do not care about the race or sex of the participants. They only want to be sure that the committee decides what they want to hear-"There is no alternative to a state income tax". You can be purple if you can guarantee the outcome.

Their problem is that the only people they know well enough to trust with this mission is their good old boy buddies. Anyone outside the political fold might just use their brains, and that would be unacceptable.

[Lorianne]

Let me get this straight. After all the ranting and raving I've heard over the years about how WOMEN are the primary pro-tax and pro-big government spending sex... come to find out (in TN at least) women aren't even involved in important taxing legislation at all.

Interesting.

[DannyTN]

You know I would support a TN Income Tax if we removed the sales tax. The Income Tax would be deducible at the Federal level, so it would reduce the total tax Tennesseans pay.

However they are wasting so much money.

And if you give them both they will simply push both up to the maximum they can get all the while claiming they will have to cut education if we don't agree. But they don't cut their new parks for their friends or sending the governor's jet to Memphis to pick up pies.

[GailA]

You would only be able to deduct 25%. You would gain nothing. And the possibility of the IT rate CLIMBING, and CLIMBING every time they need a few dollars more to waste on stadiums, college entrances, 6th sports facility on a campus, 3rd swimming pool you would see a rise in the rate you were paying. Every pay raise you got they'd get more and more of your check. Even if the did away with the sales tax it would ONLY be temporary and you know it. Soon we'd be paying a 6% income tax and a 6% sales tax.

With a sales tax YOU control the amount they get. You have the option to avoid it by using the internet, garage sales, etc.

[DannyTN]

Even a 25% deduction in a 33% tax bracket is 8%. That would mean that for every dollar we pay the state in taxes, we save 8% of that in federal taxes. That's amounts to a nice chunk of change.

But I agree that they would keep raising the income tax and put the sales tax back in. We would lose much more than what we saved because the state would raise taxes and waste the funds.

It's well worth paying an extra 8%, to maintain the people's control on the legislature.