Kibosh Placed On Kelsey Anti-Income Tax Affirmation

By Kleinheider Posted on April 1, 2009 at 12:18 pm

Rep. Brian Kelsey’s constitutional amendment to confirm that the income tax is unconstitutional will not see the light of day:

The subcommittee didn’t actually vote on the resolution, of course, not wishing to wind up on the record on this particular issue. Instead, its leaders craftily attached a $20,000 fiscal note by requiring newspaper publication notice to voters if the question ever makes it onto the ballot. Then the panel voted to delay considering the resolution until after the state budget, meaning it’ll most likely be quietly killed. Once the budget is adopted, the legislature’s spent all the money there is to spend. So even coming up with another $20,000 for Kelsey will be impossible.

Kelsey offered to raise private funds to pay for the legal notice but no one was listening

“Of course, this will never come out from behind the budget,” he told reporters. “They just showed exactly how they feel about this resolution. They’re for an income tax. It’s extremely frustrating that they won’t even allow us to go out and raise these funds privately so that we can put this matter to rest.”

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