"blue ribbon" tax justice web workshop on your phone: 1-866-740-1260 access code: 8931147#
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
"Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop
On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#
![Page 2: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Welcome!
Who We Are and Why We Care Overview: Kentucky’s Tax and Budget
Landscape Opportunity: the Blue Ribbon
Commission A Framework Our Role: Ways to Take Action
![Page 3: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Why We Care
![Page 4: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Key functions of Kentucky’s state budget
![Page 5: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Long-Term Sustainability
Source: Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 20145.0%
5.5%
6.0%
6.5%
7.0%
7.5%
8.0% General Fund Revenues in Decline as Share of Economy
![Page 6: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Cuts to Selected Agencies, 2008-2013
Source: Budgets of the Commonwealth
State funding change (inflation-adjusted)
Kentucky Arts Council -38%
Kentucky Educational Television -34%
Libraries -30%
Public health departments -29%
Environmental Protection -27%
Workforce development -25%
Nature Preserves Commission -22%
Vocational Rehabilitation -21%
Public universities & community colleges -21%
![Page 7: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Libraries cut 30% since ‘08
"My family is at our library at least once a week to keep current on our reading and to introduce our 3-year old and our 8-month old to the world of books. It seemed like my local library always had a shelf full of new books on display. Now I only see a handful.” – Carter Wright, Jefferson County member
![Page 8: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Tax Fairness
Source: Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
![Page 9: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
![Page 10: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Blue Ribbon Commission
•Purpose•Process•Principles / guidelines / goals•Conversations
![Page 11: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Blue Ribbon Commission’s Process
![Page 12: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Commission’s Timeline
![Page 13: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Blue Ribbon Commission
• Purpose• Process• Principles / guidelines / goals
– Fairness -- Simplicity and Compliance
– Competitiveness -- Elasticity – Adequacy
• Conversations
![Page 14: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
The Blue Ribbon Commission is having some key conversations…
![Page 15: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
But these important conversations are missing…
![Page 16: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
What’s our role?
Some things to lift up:1. Support for a fair
structure, where everyone pays their fair share.
2. Support for adequacy.3. Competitiveness via
fairness and adequacy.4. Specific policy solutions.
![Page 17: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Policy solutions include…
![Page 18: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Tools
1. A shared framework2. Opportunities to share
it and ways to take action.
3. Resources to learn more.
4. An invitation to continuing to network with each other.
![Page 19: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Elements of our unified message • Personal• Grounded in the Commission’s own guidelines• Solution-oriented• Echoed by others/Echoing others
![Page 20: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
A Possible Framework I. The essentials: Who you are and the Kentucky
you want to see.
II. The tax- and revenue-related obstacles standing in our way
III. Good solutions
![Page 21: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
I. The essentials
• I am _____.
• I want to see ____.
• “I’m another Kentuckian for raising revenue, and for everyone paying their fair share toward making Kentucky a great place to live and work."
![Page 22: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
II. What’s in the way
• Lack of fairness.Our current taxes are not fair because low- and middle-income Kentuckians pay about 11% of their income in state and local taxes, while the wealthiest pay about 6%. This isn’t fair.
And/ or• Lack of adequate revenue. Our current tax structure is inadequate. [Reference some of the budget cuts that are impacting your community.]
And/ or• Lack of investments to support good jobs and help KY stay
competitive.We can be a more competitive state for good jobs if we invested more in our people, and stopped cutting budgets and public sector jobs.
![Page 23: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
III. Good solutions
• Good solutions include: 1) A more progressive income tax, with a state EITC, to ensure that we're all paying our fair share.
2) Taxing the same luxury services that our surrounding states tax.
3) Closing corporate tax loopholes.
• Good tax reforms must raise revenue, be fair to lower- and moderate-income Kentuckians, and allow sustainable investments in Kentucky’s future. Thank you.
![Page 24: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
A Possible Framework I. The essentials: Who you are and the Kentucky
you want to see.
II. The tax- and revenue-related obstacles standing in our way
III. Good solutions
![Page 25: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Take Action: Come to the Meetings!
• Tuesday, May 29, 6 p.m., Paducah
• Tuesday June 19, 6 p.m., Bowling Green
• Tuesday July 10, 6 p.m., Louisville
• Tuesday July 24, 6 p.m., Covington• Tuesday Aug 7, 6 p.m., Prestonsburg• Tuesday Aug 21, 6 p.m., Lexington
![Page 26: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Take Action: on the web!
• Comment on the Blue Ribbon Commission website.
• Share out the facebook events to help get the word out.
![Page 27: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Take Action: Talk with your friends and family!
![Page 28: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Take Action: Write Letters!
• Help create good local conversations by submitting your statement as letters to the editor, especially for the two weeks leading up to your local event
• Meet with your local paper’s reporters and/or editorial board/editor.
![Page 29: "Blue Ribbon" Tax Justice Web Workshop On your phone: 1-866-740-1260 Access Code: 8931147#](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022051516/56649cc45503460f9498e0d2/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Go to KFTC’s Blue Ribbon Commission page!
www.kftc.org/Blue-Ribbon
•Sign up to speak•Sign up to coordinate•Work with the framework we used tonight.•Find a tax policy talking point sheet that you can print out and bring to the meeting.•Times and places of all the meetings.