One of many upcoming articles - how can you tax nursing home payments?

[JPZenger]

http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/nursing-homes-sales-tax-on-services-would-cost-residents-thousands/article_892b78ca-c377-11e4-ad78-c7281712371d.html

You can expect to see a whole series of these articles over the next few weeks as various groups organize against the proposed 6.6 % tax on all goods and services (except food and clothing). This one deals with the tax's effects on payments people make to stay in nursing homes.

Next, you will see funeral homes talk about the proposed tax on caskets, etc. etc.

[truedelphi]

2. Here is a kuhl question for all state governors and all state legislatures?

I think about the situation here in California, where so many decent state and county sponsored agencies had their budgets slashed to the bone. My local school district must make do on a budget of 9 to 10 million - down from 15 to 6 million in 2009-2010.And right now, we are going to get socked additional tax monies at the gas pumps, due to our sin of driving less, and using more gas economical vehicles. (California already has the highest gas taxes in the nation.)

Why don't our state legislatures make it MANDATORY that every big corporation install a headquarters in their state? If AT & T or Verizon, Coca Cola or Pepsi, wants to do business in California, or any other American state, why can't they be told to put in a damn headquarters. Then they should be taxed at the same rate that we small businesses are forced to pay. The biggest monopolies on earth PAY NO taxes of any type to any governments, yet the average citizen is taxed on everything!

You can pay tens of thousands of dollars annually to pay off your student loans, yet you will be lucky to get a $ 1,000 deduction. And now this about nursing and assisted living facility residents!

Older generations of citizens, now safely six feet under, would never have stood for this. But we are so willing to be screwed over by the local Powers that Be.

[mrmpa]

3. 6.6% tax is actually...........

7%. It wouldn't be until a good is $10 that tax on it would bring it to a total of 10.66. $1 would be rounded up to $1.07. $2 would be $2.13, $3 would be $3.19, etc. Unless my math is wrong.

[femmocrat]

4. The republicans will never pass any of this.

I would appreciate property tax relief, but the rest of it is just too drastic.

[meow2u3]

5. Wolf wants too much too soon

And with a hostile legislature to boot. If I were the governor, I'd back off on the major tax overhaul he's proposing, especially with the tax hikes on the poor (sales tax increase, new taxes on vapor products) and settle for an income tax hike, which affect the better-off.

[femmocrat]

6. Agree. He should have gone for the extraction tax first.

He over-reached.