After Pledging To Not Raise Taxes, Walker Proposes Hiking Taxes And Fees On The Poor

[cal04]

After Pledging To Not Raise Taxes, Walker Proposes Hiking Taxes And Fees On The Poor And Students
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/16/walker-tax-hike/

One of the most important ideological commitments of the modern conservative movement is an opposition to tax increases. It is with this ideology that then-Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker signed Americans For Tax Reforms’ “Taxpayer Protection Pledge,” a vow not to raise taxes on the people of his state.

Yet in his newly proposed budget, now-governor Walker appears to have already broken this pledge. While the budget would lower taxes overall — it includes $83.3 million in tax cuts “primarily for businesses and investors” — it would make up for lost revenue by eliminating tax credits and exemptions that primarily benefit the poor and even some in the middle class.

Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau — the state’s equivalent of the Congressional Budget Office — finds that this would amount to a $49.9 million tax increase on people who receive these credits over the next two years:

Low and middle income people would lose tax credits worth about $49.4 million over two years, the new Legislative Fiscal Bureau report said.

Those affected most by Walker’s proposal would include low-income families who qualify for the earned income tax credit program, and low-income homeowners who receive tax rebates under the homestead tax credit.

[Salviati]

1. He didn't lie at all...

... it's just that he doesn't consider the poor to be "people"

[Capitalocracy]

4. +1

They're not even on the radar.

Until we need revenue. Then they're an easy target.

[cali]

16. exactly. sigh.

[Guilded Lilly]

2. Weasel.

[valerief]

3. He simply mispoke. He meant to say "probably not raise taxes". nt

[Drale]

5. This proves that he is the stupidest person at the party

He has to remember the last guy why said "read my lips, no new taxes" and what happened to him after he raised taxes.

[gateley]

6. I can't believe he's still pulling this shit -- doesn't he realize his days are numbered? nt

[Turbineguy]

7. Hey! It's expensive to be poor!

[derby378]

8. To everyone who actually believed Walker...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQF5I45J3UU

[Poiuyt]

9. I depend on that Homestead tax credit to survive

It's hard for me to express how much I loathe that man.

[druidity33]

11. What is this credit for? nt.

[madrchsod]

14. here the info for wisconsin

http://www.revenue.wi.gov/faqs/ise/home.html

i have the same thing here in illinois

[Angry Dragon]

10. If I was a god fearing person I would ask his god

to visit his flesh with boils for seven years, then to have insects embed themselves under his skin for the next seven years, and then flail his flesh from his body for the next seven years, and then drop his body into the bowels of hell to watch his bones burn and then start all over again. But seeing as I am not a god fearing person I can not ask that of his god

[Terra Alta]

12. Scott Walker's "read my lips" moment.

There is NO WAY this fool will be re-elected. Hopefully he will get recalled before then.

[Overseas]

13. K&R. GOP hero.

Cruel and proud of it.

[eppur_se_muova]

15. The first time, I read that as "pees on the poor".

The second time, I interpreted it that way.

[elias49]

17. I guess it was "not meant to be factually accurate"

I guess Walker gets to be a member of the John Kyl liars club.