Do Florida Dem Gov Candidates Support Congressional Democrats’ Plans To Increase Taxes?

March 13, 2018

While Florida GOP Governor Rick Scott fights to cut taxes in the Sunshine State, Democrats are out with a new plan to force taxpayers to pay more by raising income taxes, business taxes, and even the death tax.

Floridians know firsthand that this approach is not the recipe for success, having seen how lower taxes and pro-growth policies under Gov. Scott foster a booming economy, while ensuring strong fiscal health for the future of the state.

But while Andrew Gillum has already proposed a $1 billion tax hike that would make Florida less prosperous, Florida’s other Democrat gubernatorial candidates, Gwen Graham, Philip Levine and Chris King have thus far avoided questions about whether they support their party’s tax hiking agenda or how they would pay for their big government plans.

Gwen Graham, Phillip Levine, Andrew Gillum and Chris King owe voters a direct answer: Do they support Congressional Democrats’ plans to raise taxes on Floridians? It’s for them to answer.

Forbes writes:

“This week, Congressional Democrats released a detailed tax hike plan that they promised to implement if given majority control of the House and Senate after the 2018 midterm elections. So much for the crocodile tears about the deficit–Democrats want to raise taxes not to reduce the debt, but rather to spend that tax hike money on boondoggle projects.

Up until this year, the United States labored under the highest corporate income tax rate in the developed world. As a result, jobs and capital were fleeing America for more normal tax rates that could be found in tax havens like France and China (saracasm font very much activated). Finally, after many years of bipartisan consensus that the U.S. corporate rate had become an impediment to attracting new jobs and investment, Congress cut the rate all the way from 35 to 21 percent. Even doing that only puts us in the middle of the pack of developed nations, but that’s a heck of a lot better than dead last.

Instead of figuring out how to raise taxes, Congressional Democrats would do better to work in a bipartisan manner to make the middle class and pro-jobs tax relief just passed into law permanent. A rising tide lifts all boats.”