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IOWA BLOGGERS ON SOYLENT GREEN TAX PROPOSAL

January 27, 2005

As best we can remember the movie "Soylent Green," the plot revolved arount a dystopian future where everybody was killed and processed into yummy wafers before they could get old. Maybe this thought helped inspire the proposal by Iowa's Senate Republicans to exempt those under age 30 from Iowa's income tax.

The Iowa Blogosphere has chimed in.

The enigmatic State 29:

    My god, could they get any dumber?

(On another topic, the State 29 illustrated commentary on the proposal to stamp out the menace of spinning hubcaps is priceless.)

Kris at Random Mentality is sceptical that a tax break will make Iowa financially attractive to new graduates:

   You get about twice the salary for going out of state. 
   If you want new grads to stay here based on 
   financials alone, you'd better look at grants to double 
   their salary, not tax breaks.

Jeff at Tusk and Talon has a long and thoughtful post. Among other things, he discusses the non-financial reasons young folks leave Iowa on graduation:

   Who doesn't dream of going out into the world and 
   conquering it--small town kid makes good and returns 
   triumphantly. There is never going to be a better time
   to make your attempt than when you finish up school 
   (either high school or college). So, kids bolt to 
   Chicago, L.A., New York, Minneapolis, Denver, Dallas, 
   or Atlanta to give life a whirl. Short of developing 
   some big cities or making our existing cities more like 
   big cities, we aren't going to avoid losing young ones 
   to those temptations.

The Des Moines Register has another story on this today. Charles Grassley appears unimpressed.

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