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… are aimed more at giving gifts to business in the hope that they will relocate to the state. Of course, those already located in Florida have Christmas all year long thanks to the Republican lead legislature and former governors like Jeb Bush, for instance. The Republican Party has been controlling the state of Florida for a very long time and this has brought the village down to 3rd world status. Under Governor Rick Scott, you can expect more of the same, even worse.
This is where I tell you that the ignorant, uneducated citizens of the state deserve everything that Mr. Scott and the GOP is going to have done to them. The elderly will feel quite a bit of pain, and rightly so. They listened to the Republican lie and voted for it, not that there really was a good choice of candidates for governor to choose from. Even the Democrat candidate was weak.
That being said.
Scotts economic plans most surely favor business, as stated earlier. Under this bums plans, business will pay even less income tax than they do at present. Corporations pay a whopping 5.5% on profits, and Scott will lower that down to 3% beginning January 2012. By January of 2018, there would be no income tax on business. the real kicker in this crap is that less than 2% of businesses pay income tax to the state. Think about this, will you? The citizens of Florida pay no state income tax. The state has a $3 billion deficit and tourism and construction revenue is not going to cover the states expenses. Hell man! With no one paying any taxes, how does this chump and his cohorts think that they can clear up a deficit, much less bring in any type of real revenue?
Some stats.
Florida has around 2.1 million businesses, including for-profit corporations, limited liability companies and other entities, according to Florida Department of State figures. Even that figure excludes sole proprietorships.
However, only about 218,000 businesses filed state income tax returns last year, and only about 24,000 of those actually had any tax liability, Department of Revenue figures show. Florida's 5.5-percent tax rate is already lower than all but 12 other states.
But wait! There’s more!
Mr. Scott will also reduce the unemployment compensation tax rate, which was in the area of $25 per employee minimum. This is another gift because that rate jumps to around $72 this year. Merry Christmas mister businessman!
Mr. Scott’s unemployment plan would also cut back the benefit weeks from up to 26 weeks down to 20 weeks maximum and getting the checks will become harder under Scott’s ideas.
This dirtbag would also do away with some state branches of state government.
Who makes these Republican calculators, because I’d like to send them an abacus to do their math on. Maybe then the GOP could figure out that less money in does not equal more money out to cover expenses. It also wouldn’t equal cutbacks on your citizens need social services.
