Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 12:41 PM
Subject: No tax! No swap!
Campaign for Liberty
The fight started this week.
The bad news is the South Carolina Senate still wants more of your money and is fighting to raise your gas tax.
The good news is we can fix our roads without raising taxes!
With $1.2 billion found in new tax revenue, there is no need to raise taxes this year.
It's time to leave no doubt in your senator's mind. . . we will accept NO tax increase.
Nor will we accept a tax swap.
A swap - pairing a hike with a cut in another tax - is one way the South Carolina Senate is scheming to get more money out of your pocket.
The problem is we always lose when politicians want to reduce one tax in exchange for raising another.
Please contact your state senator RIGHT AWAY and clear up any doubt. Tell them you will accept neither a tax hike nor a tax swap!
You can find your senator and their contact information here:
You can simply say, No gas tax hike. No gas tax swap. Period!
They tried to pull a fast one last year.
Governor Haley proposed a reduction in income tax in exchange for a hike in the gas tax.
The problem?
The gas tax hike was to be phased in over three years. The income tax cut was to be phased in over ten years.
So please make it perfectly clear to your state senator:
>>> No tax hike
>>> No tax swap
The problem isn't just the long phase in time for the tax cut.
It's the funny political math they use to make the numbers work out.
Haley promoted the tax swap as "revenue neutral," and had some numbers to show that the tax cut was equal to the tax hike.
However, once the South Carolina Policy Council, a non-profit, non-partisan government watchdog, had a chance to review the math, the "œrevenue neutral" tax swap turned out to be a joke.
You see, Haley was basing her total amount of taxes cut over the ten-year period on the idea that your income would grow 4.3% every year for the next 10 years.
I don't think base income levels in South Carolina have ever done that!
In fact, from 2008 to 2012 South Carolina incomes grew annually by less than 1%.
So please, contact your state senator and tell them both a tax hike and a tax swap are completely unacceptable!
You can find your senator and their contact information at this link:
Why would they go to all the trouble to swap the sources of their tax money if they weren't going to end up with MORE MONEY?
Plain and simple, you and I know they wouldn't.
They always get more money in a tax swap.
We won't fall for it anymore.
So make sure you tell your state senator loud and clear. Contact them today.
There is no time to waste. They are debating it now. It could pass any time if you and I remain silent.
Thanks for all you do!
In Liberty,
Talbert Black, Jr.
President
South Carolina Campaign for Liberty
P.S. The South Carolina Senate is debating a gas tax hike right now. They are trying to get us to swallow this tax hike with a so-called swap for a tax cut elsewhere. We always lose in a tax swap even though they claim it is "revenue neutral." It never turns out that way.
Why would they go to all the trouble to swap the sources of their tax money if they weren't going to end up with MORE MONEY?
So please, contact your state senator and tell them you will not accept any tax hike, nor any tax swap.
You can find your senator and their contact information at this link:
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