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9.11.2003
 
Strife of Riley

Demagogue:
"Yesterday, by a 2-to-1 margin, Alabama voters decisively rejected a tax reform package that Gov. Riley had endorsed.

A few days before the vote, a USA Today news article offered this assessment of the state’s tax code: 'Alabama's tax code, enshrined in the 1901 state constitution, was written to protect the interests of wealthy property owners.' In other words, the deck has been stacked against low-income Alabamians for more than a century. Yet it was only after he was saddled with the responsibility of resolving the state’s fiscal crisis that newly elected Gov. Riley suddenly decided that Alabama’s tax structure was inequitable and needed to be changed."


The anti-tax juggernaut was victorious in Alabama while seemingly defeated in Oklahoma. My advice to Gov. Riley, next time make sure you have huge corporate handouts as the core of your tax increases. I mean even if they don't ever come to pass you can pass all the needed tax stuff under the cover of corporate welfare.

Try this:

10 BILLION DOLLAR TAX INCREASE TO INDUCE MICROSOFT TO MOVE HEADQUARTERS TO ALABAMA!

in fine print...
In the event that Microsoft decides not to pick up and move, we'll only collect 1 Billion Dollars for education and other needed projects, namely the "staying out of bankruptcy fund".

in finer print...
Oh by the way, we'll be raising the limits of income tax exemption to the poverty line as dictated by common decency.

in even finer print...
So put that in your pipe and smoke it!

That's how its done in these here red states.


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