A baloney sandwich

The Arkansas legislators and governor are scamming us citizens with this tax-cut baloney!

First, they say cutting the highest tax rate by 1 percent will work miracles. I beg to differ on that. I would guess you cannot find one person at Walmart, JB Hunt, P&G, etc., that refused to transfer to Arkansas or turned down a job because the state income tax was 1 percent too high. It just doesn’t work that way.

So the powers that be are slapping the entire state with a tax increase on fuel. Every person will be affected by the increase in gas and diesel prices directly in their vehicles at the pump, or increased consumer-goods costs as truckers pass that cost along. Don’t forget we needed to save the highways a few years ago with an extra one-half percent sales tax.

Hundreds of thousands were spent on a tax study, which just turned out to be nothing more than a grocery cart of options of where to slap on some more taxes. A high school civics class could have figured that out.

And to top all this off, the morons increase the tax on electric cars. Isn’t non-fossil-fuel transportation supposed to save the world? Yet we slide another little poke at the public’s pocketbook onto something that is under the radar. Poor fiscal management thrives when the money being spent comes from someone else.

JAMES STOOPS

Fayetteville