Thursday, May 03, 2007

City Tax Reduction Dances

The City Council is, reasonably, considering legislation that would reduce DC taxes. The legislation is a positive step but only relieves current DC property owners and not new ones, which is implicitly unfair.

The Wa Post coverage of this tax relief was so skewed to the left viewpoint that I am almost shocked. The subheadline on the story was Report Says the Rich Would Benefit Most From D.C. Proposals. The article then went on to quote at length in the second paragraph, before the article even outlined the tax proposal, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute's opinion of it.

Predictably, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute says that lowering property taxes benefits "the rich" and as such ought to be avoided. In reality, any tax decrease benefits all of the the people who are actually paying taxes and the fact that it benefits them should not be a means to penalize them more.

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Blogger ChrisBarronDC said...

I love the predictable left-wing spin that the tax cut would benefit the "rich"... it is still a mystery to me why there isnt a total tax revolt in the district... district taxpayers pay for a porsche and are given a yugo... you got to wonder is there a breaking point? is there a point when DC taxpayers will demand that either a - the council give us reasonable tax releif or b - if we are going to be taxed to high hell we should at least be getting top notch services from the DC government in exchange...

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