Rep. Jim Walsh advocates for I-2111, a push to prohibit personal income taxes

thank you uh chairs Berg and Robinson and ranking members orcut and Wilson and everyone else who's here and thank you for letting me testify uh in support of initiative 2111 uh for the record my name is Jim Walsh I'm the state representative from the 19th District I'm also the person who filed initiative 2111 with the Secretary of State initiative 2111 is designed to do one thing and that is codify in law the state's longstanding tradition of not having an income tax based on personal income it's been drafted narrowly so that it only applies to personal income it does not apply to any other sort of tax of you you've heard in some of the staff's briefing and uh a and also it is designed really to support the good Traditions fiscally of this state uh we have a system a three-legged stool of property tax and sales tax and a business and occupation tax and the spirit of this initiative of this legislation is to focus on that good system and to not Cloud our fiscal policy with other sorts of proposals it's also important I believe that we codify this language because we have heard from some people who would advocate for a state tax based on personal income that they may use other tax policy Maneuvers in order to set a frame in which a personal income tax would be a state policy so it's a good policy it's a good proposal it emphasizes the best part of our fiscal house and I ask you to pass it along exec out of your committee your your committees and uh and to a vote so that it becomes law as soon as possible thank you