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Should Ohio completely phase out the state income tax?

State lawmakers in Ohio are aggressively pursuing legislation to phase out the state income tax entirely by 2030, arguing it is necessary to compete with low-tax states like Florida and Texas for business investment and population growth. This shift aims to reduce the tax burden on high earners but raises questions about how the state will replace nearly $10 billion in annual revenue without slashing services or drastically increasing sales and property taxes. Proponents say keeping money in taxpayers' pockets stimulates the economy more effectively than government spending. Opponents warn that eliminating this revenue stream will decimate funding for public safety and education while shifting the tax burden disproportionately onto low-income residents through regressive sales taxes.

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Response rates from 769 America voters.

43%
Yes
57%
No
36%
Yes
46%
No
4%
Yes, make Ohio competitive with zero-tax states like Texas and Florida.
7%
No, this just shifts the burden to higher sales and property taxes.
4%
Yes, keep more of what you earn; the government wastes it anyway.
4%
No, it would bankrupt our schools and infrastructure.

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 @BDT97Y5 from Ohio  answered…1wk1W

Yes for annual income below $300,000 annually. All income over $300,000 should be taxed at 99%.

 @BDP6V45 from Ohio  answered…2wks2W

Abolish the taxes and make everything on as Karl Marx said to ones need to one’s work

 @BDN6M2Q from Ohio  answered…3wks3W

No but decrease the state income tax for all rich or poor.

 @BDMDZ35 from Ohio  answered…3wks3W

Yes, taxes are theft.

 @BDK2VK7 from Ohio  answered…3wks3W

temporarily raise on the rich but yes

 @BDGLM75 from Ohio  answered…4wks4W

I prefer sales tax, then income tax- but everyone needs to be included, before using home taxes

 @BDFJ9BQ from Ohio  answered…4wks4W

yes, to a certain extent

 @BD8K2D4  from Ohio  answered…1mo1MO

No, it would completely distroy our schooling and ensure our children are ill equiped for any job, let alone prepare them for sucsess.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…1yr1Y

Biden bans new offshore oil drilling along most of US coastline

President Joe Biden announced a ban on new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the US coastline on Monday in a move designed to bolster his environmental and climate legacy as he prepares to leave office.The order will protect 625mn acres of ocean on the US east coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific coasts of Washington, Oregon and California, as well as portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska, the White House said on Monday.“My decision reflects what the coastal communities, business and beachgoers have known for a long time: that drilling off these coasts could cause irreversible damage to places we hold dear and is unnecessary to meet our nation’s energy needs,” Biden said.The executive action will not prevent oil and gas companies obtaining leases in the central and western parts of the Gulf of Mexico, areas that produce almost 15 per cent of the nation’s oil supplies. Nevertheless, the move is expected to complicate the policy agenda of incoming president Donald Trump, who has vowed to “drill, baby, drill” and boost US oil production, even though it is already at a record level.The Trump transition team said it was a disgraceful decision designed to exact “political revenge on the American people” and the incoming president said he would immediately “unban” Biden’s prohibition on new offshore drilling.“I have the right to unban it immediately . . . we can’t let that happen to our country. It’s our greatest, it’s really our greatest economic asset,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt in an interview on Monday.Biden’s action will probably be challenged by the oil industry in court and face pushback from Republicans in Congress. But overturning the order could prove challenging and may require an act of Congress, according to legal experts.Biden is using his authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, to protect the areas from drilling — the same mechanism which former president Barack Obama used previously to ban offshore drilling in some Arctic and Atlantic waters in 2016.In 2019, a federal judge ruled that an executive order by former president Donald Trump that lifted an Obama-era ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean was unlawful.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

Michigan Showdown: Rashida Tlaib Snubs Kamala Harris as Gaza Crisis Roils Arab American Voters

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