With the House taxes bill done and on its way to conference committee, Republican Rep. Greg Davids plans to dig deeply into the state's taxes study to make his point -- raising taxes make no sense.
Davids, the House taxes committee chair from Preston, said: "After reviewing the update to the 2011 Tax Incidence Study, the one thing that stood out was that the Governor's tax hike plan would increase taxes to Minnesotans on every income level, not just the people he considers rich."
Davids plans to convene a meeting of the House Taxes Committee Thursday morning at 10:15 am to underscore that point. UPDATE: This meeting was canceled.
A release from Davids said DFL Gov. Mark Dayton could have achieved his goal of making Minnesota's tax system more progressive by lowering taxes on low-income Minnesotans.
Dayton has proposed increasing taxes on the highest earners in the state, which would put Minnesota's highest tax rate near the highest top rate in the country. The DFL governor has said it is immoral and unfair that richer Minnesotans pay a smaller percent of their income in taxes than less well off citizens.
