With the second funnel week having passed, Senator for District 12 Amy Sinclair says that things have mainly moved from policy making to budgeting and taxes.

Sinclair mentions that one of the big bills moving forward is a state constitutional amendment. She tells Raccoon Valley Radio it would raise the requirements that State Legislators need to meet before they can raise taxes to a two-thirds majority, and she explains why she is in favor of the amendment.

“I would never suggest that you should never raise taxes. We have natural disasters. We have recessions and depressions. There’s never a way that we can definitively say we’ll never need to raise more money to meet the basic standards that the government ought to provide to the people. But it shouldn’t be a low threshold. It shouldn’t be a bare simple majority. And the people of Iowa have said that in polling. And so we’re going to give them the opportunity to take that to a vote and amend the constitution to make it even more secure, that raising taxes should certainly be harder than lowering them or even just passing a routine law. So that’s a big thing that I see coming on the forefront.”

Sinclair explains that a recent poll showed that over 60 percent of Iowans were in favor of raising the threshold to increase taxes. She adds that the other big item moving forward for both chambers would be the budget targets.