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DES MOINES – Iowa’s Democratic auditor Rob Sand, a probable candidate for governor, this morning claimed the ruling Republican leadership here is heavily burdening lower-income taxpayers, and outgoing lame duck Kim Reynolds was miffed.
“The past 10 years in Iowa has seen the tax burden shift to lower and middle income folks,” Democratic Iowa Auditor Rob Sand claimed, Saturday morning. “Here’s a good illustration.”
Auditor Sand then offered the following explanation:
“The March report by the state Revenue Estimating Conference on general fund revenues predicted that in fiscal year 2026, 55% of total tax receipts, or $5.6 billion, will come from personal and corporate income taxes. Meanwhile, 44%, or $4.4 billion, will come from sales and use taxes. (These figures don’t include refunds, the vast majority of which are personal income tax refunds.) That’s an extraordinary shift. In 2019, almost 63% of total tax receipts came from personal and corporate income taxes, while nearly 34% of the total came from sales and use taxes, a 29-point difference. That gap fell to 24 points in 2023. In 2026, the REC says, it will shrink to about 11 points.”
Governor Kim Reynolds, who herself has an extremely low favorability rating amongst her constituents and won’t be seeking re-election this fall, was having none of Sand’s opinion, and offered a warning that he may want to raise taxes.
“Only in government can cutting taxes for everyone be framed as a problem,” Reynolds said in direct response to Sand. “This is Rob Sand’s code for ‘I want to raise your taxes'”, Kim Reynolds claimed.
Iowa is projected to end Fiscal Year 2025 with a General Fund surplus of approximately $2.411 billion. However, there are signs that the budget is becoming strained under her program of vouchers for rich private school kids that is costing many millions of dollars to fund.
9 thoughts on “Kim Reynolds rips Rob Sand over claims GOP is taxing lower-income Iowans most-heavily”
Kimmee still doesn’t get it or, most likely, doesn’t want to get it. Sales and use taxes affect the middle and lower tax brackets the most. A 1% rise in sales taxes is going to affect poor people more than rich people. A 10% cut in the taxes for earners of over $200,000 means that someone, somehow will have to make up the revenue that is lost through the tax cut and that difference will have a larger affect on the lower earners than those who are in the top bracket. She already gave them money back on their private school fees while low earners get nothing because even after her voucher payments, most middle or low income families still can’t afford private schools.
They should try not being poor, it’s pretty easy to do.
What will you do when all your parent’s money runs out?
be richer than you
which doesn’t bother me in the least.
Who do you think you’re kidding? You’ve never earned a dime in your life. What’s more, your stupid behavior drove your parents out of business, and is now bankrupting them. They’re going to have to cut you off, soon, so they’ll have something to live on themselves. Once you don’t have that any more, let’s see how you cure your own poverty.
why so butthurt? are you a poor? you must be a poor.
Nope, but you really babble on about being poor, which obviously means YOU’RE poor. And about to get poorer.
I just want to make sure that you have food security in your old age, do you need me to bring you over a box of supplies from the food bank?