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Would you favor removing the state income tax and replacing it with a higher sales tax?

A group of Georgia lawmakers are proposing a bill that would replace the state's income tax with a higher sales tax. Proponents say that a higher sales tax would make sure everyone pays a fairer share of taxes. Opponents say this would severely hurt the state's budget. The income tax brought in almost $8.4 billion in 2011, or about 55 percent of all revenue.

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 @ISIDEWITHDiscuss this answer...12yrs12Y

No, a higher sales tax would hurt low-income earners

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Yes, but cut spending instead of raising the sales tax

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Yes, replacing income taxes with higher sales taxes ensures everyone pays their fair share

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No, eliminating income taxes could bankrupt the state

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No

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Yes

 @NLN2T9 from Arizona  answered…6yrs6Y

Add surcharges on the wealthiest state residents to fund education, mental health, child care services. and assistance to the poor.

 @P4R2LN from Oregon  answered…6yrs6Y

We need to lower – not remove – state income tax, add a higher sales tax to ensure that everyone pays their fair share, and we need to implement a Value Added Tax to ensure that producers share the responsibilities of taxation with the consumer.

 @P4TPPK from Oklahoma  answered…6yrs6Y

Replace the income tax with a higher sales tax would be more efficient and productive. However, the state needs to cut spending to eliminate wasteful spending and focus on education and incentives for small businesses to form/expand and for big businesses to relocate to the state. Also the state needs to devote more resources on maintaining the infrastructure of the state.

 @P5FSLW from Indiana  answered…6yrs6Y

No and I want no tax on food, higher taxes on luxury items - income tax for the wealthy should be raised to levels near what it was in 1944. ie High. That's called regulation, it curbs the greed that ships jobs to China, pays workers so they live in poverty, etc. Don't let execs take home 23 million while ruining a company for it's workers, tax them regulate through taxation

 @P5JKRS from Kansas  answered…6yrs6Y

Since some are able to use tax loopholes to avoid tax and others do not make enough yet are taxed, we should eliminate the income tax, replace it with an increased sales tax of all goods except food, clothing under $50, and shelter. Everything else would be taxed at a higher rate. The thinking is that people with more disposable income would buy more things than others, thus paying more tax; and those with less disposable income would buy less taxed goods to preserve their funds. This would also deter mass consumption and production, which is not a sustainable practice, in addition to equaling the tax between the haves and have-nots.

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