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Robert Goforth on Tax Reform

 

 


Numbers don't add up to switch income tax to sales tax

Q: Do you support Kentucky eliminating the income tax and going to a more consumption-tax based model?

A: Before I could support eliminating the state income tax, I would have to be convinced that we could generate the same revenue through other consumption-based taxes without placing an inordinate burden on working Kentuckians. At present, I am not sure that the numbers add up to justify doing that. I am open to honest, fair, comprehensive tax reform that does not ask too much from the already stretched pocketbooks of Kentuckians from Feds Creek to Fulton.

Source: Louisville Courier-Journal on 2019 Kentucky governor's race , May 10, 2019

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