West Virginia Looking At Income Tax Cut
Kathy Cornwell has spent over 40 years in local media, starting her career with an internship at WCBC in the late 1980s. After graduating from Frostburg State University, she worked extensively in cable television advertising and programming with Comcast. From 2002 to 2005, she was married to WCBC's Jim Robey. Kathy returned to the News Department at WCBC in 2023. She lives in Cumberland with her husband, retired radio station manager Rich Cornwell.
West Virginia is one of the first states in the country to look at across the board personal income tax cuts. Governor Patrick Morrisey is proposing a 10% cut for residents, announced during a press conference in Parkersburg. At that press conference, national anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist spoke, saying the tax cuts are key to state success, especially when it comes to long-term investments…
“People don’t invest for the next two years. They don’t hire people for two years. They don’t build a facility for the next five years or 10 years. They build for decades, and they need to know that taxes are going down, not up, and that they’re going down with some permanency, and the commitment to go to zero on the personal income tax is one that people say, ‘You know what, once it gets to zero, it’s not moving back up again.”