At the Kissimmee City Commission meeting two weeks ago, the commission spent an entire meeting talking about what a bad idea the possible tax cuts were. These are the tax cuts associated with Amendment 1 that may be approved by the voters on January 29th. The commissioners argued that the tax cuts were going to hurt the "Quality of Life" of the residents of the City of Kissimmee. Their basic argument was that a tax cut would hurt an already struggling local economy.The Kissimmee City Commissioners are not the only politicians that believe this to be true. City and county governments have been jumping on the "tax cuts are bad" bandwagon at lighting speed. Police and fire unions have followed suit declaring the cities and counties were going to cut their budgets. Basically, all governmental hell has broken loose and the local governments want you to take notice of how bad things will be if the tax cuts in Amendment 1 get passed.
Some of these arguments were starting to make sense until today. The entire country has been in an economic downturn for some time, bordering on a recession, and nothing has seemed to be able to stop the drop. The best minds have been working on plans to help make the economy rebound, and we have waited in anticipation to find out what the best economic brains would come up with. In the end, the economic brains of our country embraced about $145 billion worth of tax relief (tax cuts) to give the economy a "shot in the arm." President Bush said that such a "growth package" also needed to include tax incentives for business investment and quick tax relief for individuals.
Wow.
So now as we go into the ballot box on January 29th, we have to determine whether we believe that local politicians know more about economics than actual economic professionals. We know that Mayor Swan believes his position is more important than the Governor, but is it more important than the President of the United States who is calling for this tax cut stimulus package? Maybe Mayor Swan and the City Manager can answer that question on their little episode of Kissimmee FYI that is intended to educate the voters. Please, educate us.
2 comments:
You are just clueless Wayne Who. You just don't understand who hard running government is.
lets give credos to irizarry who constantly gets berated by gemskie and swan, who only do what durbin says. as he said in the last meeting, NO essential personel will be laid off. the good ol boys use scare tactics so durbin can use "negative tax revenues". he also wanted to use public access tv for its intended purpose, put BOTH sides of an issue to the voters so we can make an intelligent choice. obviously durbin/swan don't want that. lets see what happens.
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