Comments on: Oxendine on Obamacare

By: Kellie

Kellie — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:13:41 +0000

just wait until we get a VAT.

By: Romegaguy

Romegaguy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:13:15 +0000

Hope you dont live near a school bus stop

By: Icarus

Icarus — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:11:57 +0000

I’m pretty sure I paid 11.5% in Virginia Beach this week.

By: Kellie

Kellie — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:57:38 +0000

Florida’s sales tax rate is close to ours and they have high tourism plus their property tax is higher on people who do not actually live there. How in the world will we go to a sales tax system without going sky high on the sales tax? Will ours be at 10 – 15%? We are after all using both sales and income tax now.
We have to cut spending first.

By: Jason Shepherd

Jason Shepherd — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:52:37 +0000

Tennesse does as well.

By: Bill Simon

Bill Simon — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:37:31 +0000

But, let’s raise taxes on cigarettes and alcohol now in order to help pay for medical services because…in a recession, people tend to gravitate towards vices like cigarettes and booze.

By: Democratic Party of Georgia Attacks Ox Over ObamaCare Website — Peach Pundit

Democratic Party of Georgia Attacks Ox Over ObamaCare Website — Peach Pundit — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:36:36 +0000

[...] Today the Democratic Party of Georgia sent out an email to supporters taking direct aim and the new website set up by John Oxendine and mentioned here and here. [...]

By: ByteMe

ByteMe — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:29:48 +0000

You also won’t get a clear reading on 2009 until next year when individual income taxes are finalized for the year. Also, comparing 2007-2008 isn’t as instructive if you use Florida, just because the economy turned in Florida before it turned here because of the real estate collapse down there.

However, in general, I’ve heard that sales taxes are more sensitive to economic disruptions than are income taxes, just because people will stop shopping for non-essentials before they get laid off in a down economy… and they won’t start buying again until after they’ve been re-employed for a while.

By: John Konop

John Konop — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:27:00 +0000

I think it is Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming. And it looks like a mixed bag.

But this can also be very deceiving because you have to factor property tax and other taxes to get a real feel of tax rate and income.

Taxes by State

http://www.retirementliving.com/RLtaxes.html

By: ByteMe

ByteMe — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:19:15 +0000

Ruh-roh. Now I’m a rapier.

By: Jason Shepherd

Jason Shepherd — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:14:24 +0000

John’s Fair Tax plan includes promoting the federal bill, but also doing it in Georgia, eliminating the state income tax and replacing it was a higher state sales tax, like FL and GA have.

Does anyone have any information on how states that have sales taxes are fairing compared to states with income taxes during this downturn?

By: Jason Shepherd

Jason Shepherd — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:10:08 +0000

Thanks ByteMe. With that rapier wit of yours, you helped prove my point exactly.

By: More on Ox and Obamacare — Peach Pundit

More on Ox and Obamacare — Peach Pundit — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:04:41 +0000

[...] Jason beat me to this yesterday, but I think it is worth noting some more. I’m a big fan of these stand along campaign websites and this one in particular is well done. [...]

By: Bill Simon

Bill Simon — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:31:54 +0000

Chris,

Do YOU know the secret elven phrase?

By: mac.midnightrider

mac.midnightrider — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:08:00 +0000

thats what I was thinking, Icarus

By: Kellie

Kellie — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:02:51 +0000

Why is Ox getting into this or the Fair Tax when neither have anything to do with the office he is running for? He seems to be all over the place. Focus John, Focus.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:59:38 +0000

That would explain why a candidate for governor is running on a campaign of _federal_ tax reform.

By: John Konop

John Konop — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:33:54 +0000

OX TEAM

First Medicare is government run healthcare. And we all know unless we get this under control the federal deficit will explode. My question is simple unless we get end of life spending under control than how do we afford this? Should tax payers pay for a hip replacement on a person with less than 6 moths to live? Should tax payers pay for a brain dead person heath care? How does the free market system fix this problem? Once again what is OX calling for the end of Medicare and or county hospitals treating the uninsured and or underinsured?

Can the OX team answer the questions? I guess they avoid the question and or attack.

By: John Konop

John Konop — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:07:05 +0000

Silent Outrage

WOW you caught me. I confuse Erick Erickson paid me 1 million dollars to post my last comment. Some of us are a part of a secrete society funded by the little green men. Please keep this between us.

BTW I hope you had fun at the last Star Trek convention.

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Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:25:49 +0000

[...] This was first pointed out around 8:30pm last night on twitter and again at 10:25pm last night in a comment on PeachPundit, and as of 5:15am this morning had not been corrected. I will post later today with an update on [...]