Vote yes on Amendment 3 on November 4th

Tennessee state income tax. 

Lloyd Daugherty and the Tennessee Conservative Union started fighting a state income tax in  80’s when then Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander toyed with the idea of an income tax for Tennessee. He fought it again in the early 90’s, when Governor Ned McWherter proposed an income tax. McWherter dropped the idea just as Alexander had. In 2002, the income tax debate came to a boiling point when Governor Sunquist pushed an income tax. The income tax was defeated and has pretty much been considered a dead issue since then. 

But that has not stopped the pro-income tax crowd from pushing for it. After that last fight in 2002, the State of Tennessee put together The Tennessee Tax Structure Study Committee to study restructuring the Tennessee tax system. On August 18, 2004, Lloyd made a presentation at one of the panels the committee held titled “Pitfalls of State Income Tax”. As expected, the committee came to the conclusion that an income tax was needed in the State of Tennessee. All they have to do is to wait until they have a willing governor and a State Supreme Court willing to rule that a state income tax is constitutional and then we will have an income tax in the State of Tennessee.

Some people argue that it is unconstitutional. Others argue that it is constitutional The debate will continue on until the matter is decided permanently, either by enacting it or expressly banning it in the state constitution.  The only way to end the debate once and for all is to pass Amendment 3 on November 4^th. 

Lloyd dedicated his life to fighting an income tax in the state of Tennessee. Let’s make sure that his sacrifice was not in vain. Let’s finish the job for him.  Vote yes on Amendment 3 on November 4^th. #noincometaxinTN  #doitforlloyd.