SalesTax or Income Tax?

Texas was designed to be a low tax, low service state on purpose. Texas uses this to lure more people to move to Texas. Texas has NO state income tax what so ever. In fact, the only real tax that the Texas State government actually imposes on the people is the sales tax. Oh yes, that wonderful sales tax. Texas’ sales tax is one of the highest in the country at 6.25% per item bought. You might think,” cool I only have to pay 6.25% of an items price to the government, I can pick and choose what I want to be taxed on.” This is a double-edged sword, however, because you get what you pay for and this doesn’t affect all people fairly.
If you happen to make a good bit of money, the sales tax won’t hurt you too badly. After all, what is another 6.25% to you! But most of Texas gets the middle finger from their bank account every time they buy something. I recently bought a car, and low and behold I paid an additional 1,500 dollars to cover the sales tax. 1500 dollars! You could have bought a flat screen TV for this amount. The tax on the car was a bit more than I make in 1 month! People without a lot of money feel the impact of this much more than anyone else. This hurts the economy, hurts you, and helps to further our poverty level in Texas.
Secondly, If you have ever needed Medicaid, disability, help with a handicapped family member, help because of poverty, medical insurance, etc and more, than you are better off moving to a new state. Texas does not provide much in the way of programs to help the needy at ALL. If you want low taxes you get LOW SERVICE. How to fix this? Switch to an income tax based taxation system and get rid of the sales tax system. Tax people based upon the amount of income they receive to create equality between everybody. Create programs that will benefit the poor and needy using the extra money the government receives. Plus you won’t have to pay that nasty tax the next time you buy a car, eliminating some of the interest on your loan. Lastly, you get some of the money back every year like your federal tax returns! I have not heard of that happening with the sales tax. You might pay a bit more, but you will get much more back to the benefit of everyone.

My Response to Fat Tutu

This proposition is a magnet for controversy. I understand the need for cancer research and I understand the need for funding for this research. My grandma had colon cancer and they caught it JUST in time before it would have become incurable. However, I do not understand why Texas is going to pour 3 Billion dollars into this over the next ten years. Why not take some of surplus we already have and apply it to the federal cancer research, pooling the resources of our state with that of the federal government. For that matter, why not put money towards research to cure crohns disease (auto-immune disease that attacks the digestive system, rotting it form the inside out), rheumatoid arthritis, AIDS (though I believe there is a great deal of funding already in this) and many other painful and deadly diseases. Cancer is not the only big bad wolf of a disease out there to put money towards. Furthermore, It is inevitable that the Texas Government will eventually tax us for this money in some shape or form. It will probably appear on some bill a couple of years from now obscured in political lingo proposing a new tax for such and such to pay for the money going to the new cancer development. I mean, for God’s sake, we complained about the roads and they built us new roads. Toll roads, to be exact. One way or the other we WILL pay for this money and not all of us are spending 10 grand a month in rent. Now that I think about it, I am not sure that the majority of people out there make 10 grand a month. I know I don’t.