Lower Taxes
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Generates revenue to fund income tax cuts
March 19, 2015
The promise, and what it rests on
“Generates revenue to fund income tax cuts”, dated 19 March 2015, is the third of the campaign’s three promises. The address this page sits at — /portfolio/amber-liqueur/ — is a leftover from the template the campaign site was built on, not a subject; we have kept it because links point at it.
As an argument it is the most conditional of the three. Gaming tax revenue is a receipt; an income tax cut is a separate decision taken later by a legislature that can also spend the money on something else. The amendment the campaign filed set up licences, a regulator and taxation of casino gaming; it did not, and could not, bind a future General Assembly to one use of the proceeds. What it did say is in the amendment text.
No byline, on purpose. Material here is signed by the desk and not by an invented person: if you see a name on a page, it belongs to someone quoted or to the author of a document, never to a persona we made up to look like a staff of ten.
Each number has an owner. Revenue lines, tax shares, licence numbers and dates are copied from the filing, report or operator page that holds them, and the sentence using a figure says where it came from. Where the source has no figure, this site leaves the sentence out instead of estimating one.
Mistakes get fixed in place. Point one out at [email protected]: the wrong line is rewritten on the page you read it on, with the old wording quoted underneath, so the change is visible rather than quietly swallowed.