re: #545 sattv4u2

And that means I should reflexively agree with him? I’m a pragmatist, and the “just tax them more” attitude doesn’t work for me. I was a small business owner back in MAssachusetts during the Dukakis years. Year after year, the state would seek funds by imposing new fees, higher taxes on the businesses like mine. THE famous one was the luxury tax. Massachusetts had a thriving Custom Yacht industry. Dozens of companies either built them or sold the finery for them there. After the luxury tax took affect, that industry perished in state. Hundreds of jobs lost, millions and millions of tax revenues that used to flow into the state treasury year after year, GONE

I get it. Taxes Baaad. “Just tax them more” is pragmatic if the “them” is the right “them”. But I won’t convince you. So I won’t try.