Budget & Tax
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April 28, 2017
Jonathan Small
Some folks will say or do just about anything to get their hands on more of your tax dollars. That’s what is happening right now at the State Capitol, where some are pushing a series of proposed new sales taxes on services by claiming former Gov. Frank Keating once did the same.
That, to put it charitably, is a falsehood. The Keating plan, proposed in 2001 and almost immediately shot down by the big-spending liberals then in charge of the Legislature, would have entirely replaced the state income tax, the business franchise tax, and the estate tax with an expanded sales tax on services – and removed the sales tax from groceries at the same time.