Thursday, July 16, 2009

Watch out - more 'emergency' legislation threatened

“Emergency” legislation is hundreds of pages long, and often is not read by our representatives. As a result, the impact on Kentuckians of such legislation – including the current health-care proposal floated in the US House of Representatives – is left unconsidered.

For example, the health-care proposal includes a surtax of 5.4 percent, which the nonpartisan Tax Foundation projects will raise Kentucky’s combined tax rate to more than 53 percent in 2011 and tax ranking nationwide to No. 19.

Ironically, the plan will put more tax burden on small businesses that legislators are counting on to start hiring workers again.

Let's hope our Washington representatives will read and analyze this 1,018-page plan before they sock it to us again. Increasing Kentucky tax burden more will drive business out of - or away from - the commonwealth.


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