Shakopee Tattoo Shop Owner Says Dayton Tax Plan Would Hurt Bottom Line
Al Lindback, owner of Lucky Linda's Body Art, said that if the Dayton tax plan were enacted, he'd "see a real reduction in numbers."
Gov. Dayton released more specifics last week about how his sales tax plan would affect individual businesses and services.
One the proposed changes to the tax code would be the expansion of the sales tax for tattoos.
Al Lindback, owner of Lucky Linda's Body Art, said the tax increase would mean raised prices for his customers.
"The only person that’s going to really hurt is the consumer," he said. "Being a service, we’re going to charge what we charge and then tax on top."
He predicted the raised prices would translate to smaller sales.
"It’s already a hard economy for the tattoo artist," he said. "It’s going to make our life harder, it’s going to make the customer’s life harder because with a $200 tattoo, you’re going to throw another $25 or $30 tax on top of that, and it’s going to irritate a whole lot of people.
"I see a direct correlation between gas prices going up and people not coming in the shop, so if they start taxing us for some of this stuff, they’re going to see a real reduction in numbers."
Terrance Brandon
12:05 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Taxes are a necessary evil so you have to have them, but they are also proven job killers. Like the business owner in the article said, they are going to charge what they need to charge to make a living and add the taxes on top. No sane business owner will do otherwise. What you tax, you have less of.
Josh D. Ondich
8:27 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Increasing the sales tax on small businesses is not the solution. The real problem is the state legislature deficit spending on projects the state cannot afford. According to Minnpost "The budget pumps an extra $340 million into education, raises $240 million in support for higher education and provides local governments with an additional $120 million in aid. That’s on top of filling in a $1.1 billion deficit.(Minnpost). Our state does have not have $340 million for education and $240 Million for local governments. Governor Dayton's Budget is trying to offset $580 Million in new spending by imposing new sales tax hikes on small businesses like Lucky Linda's Body Art. This budget will not work and it only increases deficit spending, not pay it down.
(Minnpost) http://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2013/02/dayton-defends-his-budget-plan-ready-post-session-re-election-run
Sa
9:04 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
novel idea:
every government employee takes a 5% paycut.
Average person pays about 33% out of every paycheck, cut this down to 16%
Fact of math:
50k worker @ 33% salary after benefits = 16,500 taxes total fed/state/medicare
47,500 (5% less) paying 16% taxes pays 7,600
50k less the per yr out of pocket brings home 33,500
47,500 paying 16% brings home 39,900 and increase take home of 6,400
We reduce government spending
We increase every person's take home pay
We spend money in the economy
We create jobs
The more jobs we create, the more they have?
Way out of a recession is SPEND, the more we have to spend we build our economy