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1.24.2003
Here's an editorial I will send into the local paper here. It’s a response to an article by Cal Thomas. I don't see a web version of the original editorial up on the web yet. But you know how it goes, tax cuts good, government spending bad. Well, soon we'll see state budgets going broke with no chance of deficit spending in some cases. Enjoy ------ Ideology and party loyalty over common sense, the message couldn't have been made clearer in an editorial from Cal Thomas on Friday, January 24th; "GOP governors mimic Democrats". In the midst of massive state budget shortfalls Republican Governor's across the nation are threatening to break ranks with the tax cutting ideologues that currently hold the reigns of the GOP. Governors in Arkansas, Georgia and Connecticut are proposing to do the unthinkable, raising taxes to keep their states from going bankrupt. "Cowboy" Cal has been called in to shore up the herd, publicly chastise these renegades and send a warning to other GOP governors that tax cutting is strictly off limits. The expressions on the stunned governor's faces should be something similar to that of the captain of a leaky vessel who is told that he should "just let the ship sink". I can almost hear the zombie-like groans issuing forth as Cal Thomas runs through the usual rhetoric about how the problem is runaway government spending. His answer to the budget troubles are to have a "State Yard Sale"; my term. He refers to an essay from the American Legislative Exchange Council that recommends selling state assets such as "airports, stadiums, ports, utilities, liquor operations, buildings, land and gas and electric utilities." No doubt the governors are leery to just start selling off assets that have been placed into their trust by the people of their state. If you've been a good little GOP'ster you have probably already privatized everything in sight and are merrily watching money flow out of your state at record speeds. To add to the misery, states have been given the ultimate snub from the President who has refused to aid them in their time of crisis. Not even republican governors see any aid coming from the federal government. Instead they are watching in dismay as the President wages a two pronged assault on the public coffers. The big government never got around to passing their balance budget amendment like so many states did a few years ago. So they can go ahead with massive tax cuts all the while they are shaking big expensive sticks and making angry faces at Saddam Hussein. You either pay for government or you have no government at all. I say we call the GOP's bluff. Lets close down the state government, shutter the schools, send home the cops, cancel the courts and watch the Republican utopia that unfolds. We're on our way already. Let's end the myth right now that you can somehow get something for nothing. | |
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