Opinion: Iowa taxpayers deserve constitutional protection against higher taxes
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-10% Center
- Reliability
25% ReliablePoor
- Policy Leaning
-10% Center
- Politician Portrayal
6% Positive
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
53% : States that have a supermajority requirement are diverse in terms of their political culture.53% : Iowa is in competition for both jobs and people and tax rates matter, and a mass exodus is taking place in high tax states such as Minnesota and California.
52% : Also, The Des Moines Register poll found that 62% of Iowans support gradually eliminating the income tax.
50% : Further, if a future legislature wants to increase the income tax, then it will have to either build a consensus or have supermajority control of both chambers.
49% : Iowa's fiscal foundation remains strong as a result of conservative budgeting and prudent tax reforms.
44% : Currently, 17 states have some form of supermajority requirement for tax increases, including seven with that protection enshrined in their constitutions.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.