HB 229: Education TAX Bill

POM:
Please do NOT seriously consider any new funding source (TAXES) until all public funds given to private businesses, individuals, and special interest groups have been completely eliminated.  Use OUR public funds for constitutionally mandated government services such as schools, roads, public health & safety ONLY. Thank you.

Written Testimony to the House Labor & Commerce Committee, dated; February 11, 2002:
Please do NOT seriously consider any new funding source (TAXES) until all public funds given to private businesses, individuals, and special interest groups have been completely eliminated.

Last week alone the Alaska Legislature considered bills with a price tag of almost one BILLION dollars, the majority of which provide funding for special interest groups or non-essential state government spending.

This week Legislative spending bills, with fiscal notes attached, being considered contain a total of at least $114 MILLION dollars in non-essential state government spending. This money would be much better utilized on education. The future of our great state will rest on the education of our citizens.

A $7.5 BILLION dollar budget amounts to our state government spending over $12,000.00 for every man, woman, and child in Alaska. At this rate, spending for a family of six would amount to over $72,000.00! For each working person, this level of spending amounts to over $26,000 each. That's a lot of tax money folks! I want to know how many average working people will be able to afford living here once the pipeline goes dry?

Taxes are NOT the answer, at this time, to our State budget woes; cutting non-essential spending IS. Please use our public funds for constitutionally mandated government services such as schools, roads, public health & safety ONLY. When you finally get to that point, you may talk to me about taxes, but NOT before then. Thank you.
Mike McBride; Kenai

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