I want someone who will do their homework, not just say they will.<\/p>\n
I believe Chris Dimond is the best candidate for House District 33 for many reasons. Mostly because he does his research. At a recent forum Sara Hannan stated a 1 percent income tax would generate $700 million. This is flat-out wrong. She is referring to failed House Bill 115 that would have instituted a progressive tax rate starting at 2.5 percent and capped at 7 percent. I spoke to Dimond about this as I was shocked a 1 percent income tax could bring in that much revenue. He told me he spoke with the state tax director and a 1 percent income tax would generate about $220 million. This is based on approximately $22 billion of total state income. He did his homework. He heard a statement that didn’t sound right, he researched the issue, and was able to provide true, hard facts.<\/p>\n
This is the type of legislator that we need. Someone who will trust but verify information, not just rely on a statement because it sounds good. Hannan also mentioned that we need “state-operated preschool programs.” Again, if she had done her homework before focusing on sound bites she would know that we have our state-funded Head Start programs in nearly every region of our state serving children ages 3-5.<\/p>\n
I’m voting for Dimond on Nov. 6 for House District 33 and I urge you to do the same.<\/p>\n
Corey Baxter,<\/strong><\/p>\n Douglas<\/strong><\/p>\n My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire.<\/b><\/p>\n I want someone who will do their homework, not just say they will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":37129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[97],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-37128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","tag-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37128"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=37128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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