Eliminating the State income tax is the first step to getting the government out of our pocketses. Unfortunately we are so afraid of what we will lose if our government does not babysit us, that we are unwilling to claim our rights as U.S. citizens.
From The WSJ:
The [Massachusetts] state board of elections recently certified that citizen activists have gathered the 125,000 signatures required to qualify an initiative for the November ballot to eliminate the state income tax. The Small Government Act would repeal the 5.3% income and wage tax, as well as the state capital gains tax, which reaches as high as 12%. The ballot initiative would replace the $12.5 billion in taxes with . . . nothing.
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the average Massachusetts voter believes that 41 cents of every state tax dollar are wasted. Coincidentally, that’s the share of the state budget funded by the income tax. One big drain is a pension program that doles out billions each year to double-dipping pensioners and state workers retiring at taxpayer expense in their late 40s or 50s.
Nine U.S. states have no income tax, including such economic climbers as Florida, Nevada, Tennessee and Texas. These states are doing fine funding schools, hospitals and police without the income levy.
