Temper trust with questions
One sentence in the story on new legislation which took effect on Jan. 1 (“State gas tax hikes, new laws in effect beginning today.”) stated:
“Additional legislation means the secretary of revenue will have fewer powers to make corporations redo their tax returns if those corporations are suspected of dodging taxes.”
If you do not have questions after reading that, you didn't read it.
• Are state legislators now acting more like Congress and protecting the interests of corporations more than the interests of the people who elect them — the very people who they are suppose to represent?
• Why did this come up in the first place? Who introduced it? Who supported it?
• Who has connections with the law's supporters and who benefits from this law the most? (The “finding jobs” explanation with no detailed account of how it is done exactly simply does not answer questions any more.)
And this is about corporations being asked to redo tax returns if dodging is suspected? What happens then with the ones who actually dodge — we start paying them grants with our tax money?
What is happening in our state legislature? Do we trust them so much that we don't care? Is it still “don't stir things up?” It is about time we did stir things up because sitting on our thumbs and not asking questions is what got us where we are today. We complain about our government while not taking responsibility for electing it — or asking questions.
Latitia Wilson
“Additional legislation means the secretary of revenue will have fewer powers to make corporations redo their tax returns if those corporations are suspected of dodging taxes.”
If you do not have questions after reading that, you didn't read it.
• Are state legislators now acting more like Congress and protecting the interests of corporations more than the interests of the people who elect them — the very people who they are suppose to represent?
• Why did this come up in the first place? Who introduced it? Who supported it?
• Who has connections with the law's supporters and who benefits from this law the most? (The “finding jobs” explanation with no detailed account of how it is done exactly simply does not answer questions any more.)
And this is about corporations being asked to redo tax returns if dodging is suspected? What happens then with the ones who actually dodge — we start paying them grants with our tax money?
What is happening in our state legislature? Do we trust them so much that we don't care? Is it still “don't stir things up?” It is about time we did stir things up because sitting on our thumbs and not asking questions is what got us where we are today. We complain about our government while not taking responsibility for electing it — or asking questions.
Latitia Wilson