Opinion: Iowa lawmakers: Our tax system is broken; let's break it some more

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : It is simply unquestionable that the current law now being implemented -- let alone new proposals to accelerate and deepen tax cuts and even eliminate the income tax -- will be disastrous for public services and tax fairness.
62% : Instead of passing more tax cuts skewed to the wealthy -- and rising on that list of most unfair tax systems -- we could make targeted tax changes to expand opportunity for working families.
62% : Kansas saw it in recent years, reversing radical tax cuts after five years of damage, still attempting to recover.
58% : Now lawmakers are debating another round of income-tax cuts that will hit harder, possibly as extreme as eliminating the individual income tax, which generated half of the state budget when the latest cuts started.
56% : That's because the income tax has partially offset the regressive nature of sales and property taxes that hit the poor hardest.
52% : Deep income-tax cuts passed in 2022 jeopardize 20% of the state General Fund supporting education, Medicaid, mental health, corrections, child care, water quality and public safety.
50% : A Senate resolution, SJR 2004, would set up a constitutional amendment requiring income-tax rates to be the same for everyone regardless of income.
50% : Two have a flat-rate income tax, one of them is Illinois.
45% : Hopefully Iowans will realize the stakes before we see the full effects of these plans: families who can't take their child to the doctor because they were cut off Medicaid, more crowded classrooms because school districts can't hire more teachers, even dirtier water because there's nobody to penalize polluters.
42% : One in 6 Iowa working households don't make enough to get by without public supports.

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