Republican gubernatorial candidate Leslie Rutledge said she plans to try to get a proposed constitutional amendment that would eliminate the state's individual income tax on the 2022 general election ballot.
Rutledge, the state's attorney general, announced Thursday in a campaign video that she wants to make Arkansas first in job creation and economic development and compete with Texas, Tennessee and Florida -- states that don't have income taxes.
Individual income taxes bring in about $3 billion -- about half of the state's total general-revenue collection in a fiscal year. The state's general-revenue budget is nearly $6 billion.
Rutledge said she will launch a grassroots effort to get this proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot because she believes that the people of Arkansas -- not the politicians -- are the best ones to make this decision.
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