Mark Wagoner has raised your taxes

Citizens of District 46

Mark Wagoner has voted to raise your taxes, Mark Dansack has never raised a tax.
Mark Wagoner supported House Bill 66, signed into law by the ever-popular Ohio Governor Bob Taft in June of 2005 as part of Ohio's 2006-2007 budget cycle.

As part of House Bill 66, Mark Wagoner voted to permanently increase the state sales tax from 5% to 5.5 % and also voted to create the new Commercial Activities Tax, which taxes Ohio small businesses.

The Commercial Activities Tax (CAT) is an annual tax imposed on the "priviledge" of doing business in Ohio. This new tax was effective beginning July 1, 2005. While the tax may not be passed through to customers as an itemized charge, its cost may be passed on in the form of an increase in price. The tax is included as part of the sales tax base.

"The net effect of this CAT is that your grocer is being assessed a tax on his gross receipts which is being passed on to the consumer, thereby giving us the first tax on groceries in Ohio since the Great Depression", Mark Dansack stated.

" This permanent increase in the sales tax and new tax on small businesses has increased the burden on middle class families, while Mr. Wagoner has consistently supported tax relief for the very wealthy in Ohio".

Dansack continued, "There are only two candidates for State Representative in House District 46 and only one of them has either voted to raise a tax or impose a new tax on Ohioans, and that candidate is Mark Wagoner. Yet, the Wagoner campaign, through various groups apparently associated with the Ohio Republican Party, has engaged in a demogogic attack on my campaign, for merely speaking in generalities about the need to look at ways to reduce property taxes while funding public education in Ohio."

"I challenge Mr. Wagoner to stop the distortion on my position with respect to taxes in Ohio and I welcome the chance to debate the issue with him if he has the courage to do so. However, given the present desperate attacks from Mr. Wagoner, I doubt he'll be willing to", Dansack concluded.

Citizens of District 46, I ask you to research this issue and not be misled by my opponent and the desperate leadership of the state GOP. These folks are spending barrels and barrels of dollars to defeat me because I stand for change and an end to the culture of corruption in Ohio. I also invite you to take a look at the Secretary of State's website and see where Mr. Wagoner and I are getting our campaign contributions. You'll see the corporate PACS are bankrolling my opponent because they too fear the change of a citizen candidate such as myself interrupting their way of doing business in Ohio. I've raised my funds from every day citizens without a political agenda who know me as a person and a family man.

**** link to Mark Wagoner campaign finance reports, 2006: http://www1.sos.state.oh.us/pls/portal/PORTAL_CF.CF_QRY_FILED_BY.show?p_arg_names=election_key&p_arg_values=19199

**** link to Mark Dansack campaign finance reports, 2006: http://www1.sos.state.oh.us/pls/portal/PORTAL_CF.CF_QRY_FILED_BY.show?p_arg_names=election_key&p_arg_values=19525

Stand with me and we'll have a great victory come election day. Thanks for your past, present, and future support.

Have a good evening,

Mark