Alex Sink Seeks Media Time

With former Gov. Charlie Crist now fully embracing the Democratic Party, former Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, the partys 2010 gubernatorial candidate, is working to keep her name in the news.

Sink, who like Crist is heavily expected to make a run for the Democrat Partys gubernatorial nomination in 2014, will hold a media conference Wednesday in Miami to urge congressional leaders not to increase taxes on middle class Floridians.

On January 1, income taxes are scheduled to go up for 7.6 million middle-class Florida families, and tax cuts such as the expanded Child Tax Credit, the 10 percent tax bracket, marriage penalty relief, and the American Opportunity Tax Credit all expire, noted a release announcing Sinks media conference.

Florida small businesses will be able to claim immediate tax deductions for only $25,000, rather than $250,000, of new investment [and] 7.6 million middle-class Florida families will see their federal income taxes increase.

A typical median-income Florida family of four (earning $63,900) could see its income taxes rise by $2,200 as a result of losing the combination of the expanded child credit, marriage penalty relief, and the 10 percent bracket.