What About A Permanent Tax Reduction?

We had a tax holiday the other day, and there was a lot of hoopla about what a break it provided our citizens and how much good it did for our economy. The more I heard our politicians extol the virtues of that two-day tax holiday, and the wonderful things it was doing, the more I had to wonder: why just two days? Why not lower our taxes permanently so we could have these benefits all the time?

And ... if our state government could skip collecting those taxes during the tax holiday, do you reckon they didn't need that money after all? Or are they going to put a little bit of money in one of our pockets, and take a bunch out of the other? The same Georgia legislature that voted for the tax holiday also voted to borrow some money which we - or our children - will have to pay back one of these days. And how much did our total state budget go up the last time the legislature met and passed all of Governor Barnes' wonderful proposals?

It seems to me the only way we, the taxpayers, are going to get real, permanent benefit from tax cuts is for government (at all levels ... county, state and national) to cut back on their spending for all those wonderful things they are doing for us, and let us spend a little bit more of our own hard-earned money. If a tax holiday is so wonderful, why not a tax cut.

This is Gordon Sawyer, and may the wind always be at your back.