{"id":11924,"date":"2009-06-23T07:11:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T12:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11924"},"modified":"2009-06-23T07:11:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T12:11:45","slug":"without-employers-you-dont-have-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11924","title":{"rendered":"“Without employers, you don’t have employees.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, the state of Maine became an official “pro-business” state with their implementation of a flat tax, essentially, a tax cut on the rich;<\/p>\n

This month the Democratic legislature and Governor John Baldacci broke with Obamanomics and enacted a sweeping tax reform that is almost, but not quite, a flat tax. The new law junks the state’s graduated income tax structure with a top rate of 8.5% and replaces it with a simple 6.5% flat rate tax on almost everyone. Those with earnings above $250,000 will pay a surtax rate of 0.35%, for a 6.85% rate. Maine’s tax rate will fall to 20th from seventh highest among the states. To offset the lower rates and a larger family deduction, the plan cuts the state budget by some $300 million to $5.8 billion, closes tax loopholes and expands the 5% state sales tax to services that have been exempt, such as ski lift tickets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Imagine that! They also slashed their budget – who knew Democrats understood the process? The quote in the title of this post if from Maine’s Governor Baldacci response to the question how he convinced the Democrat legisture to lower taxes on the rich. <\/p>\n

I’m hoping my Governor O’Malley is paying attention, since the only thing he knows how to do is raise taxes and threatens to fire cops and firemen in order to get tax hikes so he can raise bureaucart wages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Wall Street Journal, the state of Maine became an official “pro-business” state with … “Without employers, you don’t have employees.”<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}