I believe we can all agree that taxes are a big deal to us, so when I saw a blog entry in the Burnt Orange Report it immediately caught my eye. Emily Cadik submitted a blog titled “Texas has the Third Most Regressive Tax System in the U.S.” The information in this entry does pose some intriguing information about how taxes work in the state of Texas. As I read the blog, I realized this was geared toward low-income citizens of Texas. The redundancy about how Texas charged low-income earners more than they did the top 1% of the population was inevitably present.

She only uses two sources for her information instead of gathering a variety of different sources. Having multiple sources tells the reader that there has been a good amount of thought into the topic since so many people have published information about it. This attracts more people to consider the issue in the blog. It could also spark the necessary action that needs to be taken in order to fix how our state taxes work.

Although, typically, blogs are supposed to be fairly short as compared to a full report, I do believe that they should not only educate but propose some insight on what the blogger feels about the topic he/she has written about. With that in mind, I feel that this entry would have a lot more impact on the readers if it had the author’s insight on the topic instead of just having data. As a writer, your purpose is to strategically impose your opinion into your readers. Blogs are supposed to be a reflection of whom the author is and what their stand is on the type of topics they choose to write on. Without this, a blog is just another news report. Emily Cadik chose a great topic to write on, but I feel that her blog could have been a lot better with some of her own insight on the way Texas taxes its citizens.