Florida’s Tea Party Governor wants to cut corporate taxes

An editorial by Michael J. Scott:

Rick Scott is a disaster for Florida and an embarrassment to the people of the state. Scott was actually under investigation by state and local agencies for the way he handled his businesses while he was running for election, but it didn’t matter to the Tea Baggers who ignored the evidence of Scott’s wrongdoing and elected him to office.

This looney ran on a promise to slash the budget by reducing pensions, doing away with clean air and water regulation, cutting education budgets and eliminating scholarship programs. He also plans to privatize Florida’s prisons, reduce the public work force, and reduce property taxes.

To add insult to injury Scott wants to decrease the corporate tax rate by anywhere from 1 to 4.5% over the next two years, which will cost the state billions of dollars. His claim is the same old tired Right wing nonsense about trickle down, a theory that has long since been debunked as to in any way helping the economy. On the contrary this policy is what got us into trouble in the first place. Why it continues to resonate with any right thinking person is beyond me, and the fact that Obama continues to embrace it disturbs me greatly.

The fact is Florida, like many states is cash strapped and is facing a 300 million dollar shortfall. That notwithstanding their crazy governor is wanting to cut taxes for the wealthiest people in the state. How does that possibly make sense? Fortunately, the democrat minority and even some republicans are resisting this measure as being one bridge too far.

In closing the majority of Florida’s voters elected this loose cannon and now they’re stuck with him, unless he gets indicted, which is unlikely. As to the future of the bill insiders tell us that Scott’s budget proposal is likely to pass in the long run, as the governor has threatened to veto any bill that does not include the tax cuts for the large corporations.

The fact is we need to be raising taxes not reducing them. That’s common sense. The disastrous Bush tax cuts need to go and we need to return to the tax tables of the Clinton presidency if we want to recover.

As to Florida: Good luck! You’re going to need it with Rick Scott running the show!