Temporary Taxation
Ask yourself this, when in history has the United States at a Federal or State level ever levied a tax and then repealed it completely?
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Legislatures have a nasty habit of misleading their constituents into believing things can be temporary. They do this by stating things like "budget gap" or "we may need to cut schools", they use these because they are buzz words to open the door to taxation. Who wants to see little children standing on the street because the school can't afford to bus them in? Nobody, that is what the legislature preys on.
The critical problem is that legislatures have proved zero ability to keep budgets in line, instead they tend to increase their spending and absorb anything that was a surplus. Sadly states that find themselves creating temporary taxes will find relatively quickly that these taxes become constant, they may get reduced, but much like the "Homeland Security Level" they will always exist.
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Legislatures have a nasty habit of misleading their constituents into believing things can be temporary. They do this by stating things like "budget gap" or "we may need to cut schools", they use these because they are buzz words to open the door to taxation. Who wants to see little children standing on the street because the school can't afford to bus them in? Nobody, that is what the legislature preys on.
The critical problem is that legislatures have proved zero ability to keep budgets in line, instead they tend to increase their spending and absorb anything that was a surplus. Sadly states that find themselves creating temporary taxes will find relatively quickly that these taxes become constant, they may get reduced, but much like the "Homeland Security Level" they will always exist.
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