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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (173735)8/14/2003 5:47:29 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1574616
 
Lower taxes are usually but not always better. A certain amount of infrastructure is needed and if the private sector can't or won't do it and the public sector can without becoming an intolerable burden then it makes some sense for it to do so.

I can't comment on the specifics in Alabama because I don't have sufficent knowledge of the specifics, but I don't think a massive tax increase is usually a good idea esp in times of economic weakness. Smaller or more phased in tax increases may make sense for a state that has very low taxes and lacks infrastructure.

I think any spending increases should be focused on education but an increase in education spending should be part of a well planned reform not just dumping new money in to bad schools.

Tim
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