| Posted by CagleFan , Jul 29,2001,19:02 | MetroBlab |
The governor supposedly went on a listening tour last week before
he "decided" to veto the budget. He refused to release his schedule
ahead of time. So he went out to listen to the people but he was
afraid to tell the people where he would be because they might
show up and tell him something he didn't want to hear. It is the
hallmark of his administration. Anyone who gives him good advice
that he doesn't want to hear is gone. He is surrounded now by
lapdogs.
Instead of a listening tour it was more of a blame tour.
He blasted the Knox County Republican delegation for not helping
him enact tax reform. It takes a lot of brass to blame the House
Republicans for not solving the budget crisis. The Democrats who
control the House prevent the Republicans from having a say in
just about anything. They don't let them chair committees. They
don't let them play any sort of meaningful role. If you are a toady
they will throw you a crumb now and then.
But now we find that when it's time to vote for an income tax the
Democrats suddenly want to include the Republicans in this
important venture. Blaming the House Republicans for the budget
disaster is liking blaming the waiters on the Titanic for hitting the
iceberg.
Then Sundquist blamed local government officials for not
supporting the income tax. This is his justification for going after
local sales taxes that are collected by the state and returned to the
local level.
So what does this mean? If mayors and county executives had
called up their legislators and told them to vote for an income tax
they would have run down there to do so? In the unlikely event
that Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe, who is philosophically
opposed to an income tax, had called up Rep. Bill Dunn and told
him to vote for an income tax Dunn would have done it? Get real.
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Face it: Sundquist is an idiot. Whether you're pro or antitax there are plenty of reasons to despise him. Most are being fully engaged.
| Posted by Julias Jaded Jester ® , Jul 29,2001,19:42 | MetroBlab |
it seems to me that the lawmakers need to stay within their means, just like an ordinary family in Tennessee does. My thought is WHY grow the government of Tennessee at a frantic pace? I was looking around the other day trying to figure out exactly WHAT I am getting for my money in this state....
since I don't have any kids in public schools, 41% of my taxes are going to something that doesn't really benefit me directly. I understand WHY we need to spend money on education, and that's fine...
but it seems to me that a whole lot of us out here aren't getting much for the amount of time we spend PULLING this sled that a lot of people are apparently riding on...
if they MUST raise taxes, let tham charge more for smokes and beer, or kick up the sales tax a tiny tiny percentage, but the best option to me is for them to live within their means...
hell I want a DVD player...right NOW. I can't afford one, so I ain't getting one.
As for a state income tax, I say ABOLUTELY NOT.
| Posted by Walt Claiborne ® , Jul 30,2001,08:51 | MetroBlab |
How about making out-of-state residents pay for TennCare or, DUH, kicking them off, along with inmates and dead people?
And how many times does it take TDOT to repave I-40 in Knoxville?
| Posted by Uncle Sam , Jul 30,2001,17:17 | MetroBlab |
| Posted by Walt Claiborne ® , Jul 31,2001,08:40 | MetroBlab |
| Posted by ghost of A.Johnson , Jul 31,2001,23:14 | MetroBlab |
| Posted by Walt Claiborne ® , Aug 01,2001,14:15 | MetroBlab |
You are a retrograde reprobate!
Point Number 1: If we define the American South as those 17 states that fall below the Mason-Dixon Line, south of the Ohio River, west of the Mississippi (accounting for Missouri as a former slave state under the Missouri Compromise of 1820), moving down to 36/30 to include Oklahoma and Texas, you are wrong, sir, DEAD WRONG, as wrong as you were when you foolishly paced the railroad car from Greeneville to Carter's Station July 28, 1875, refusing to sit down and quaff water, incurring the heat injury that led to your fatal stroke July 29, 1875.
Point Number 2: Even if we accept the definition of the South as being those 11 states comprising the Confederate States of America (and the loyal governments established in Bowling Green, KY, and Sedalia, MO), you sir are still DEADER THAN A DOORNAIL!
Point Number 3: By EITHER of these definitions, there were many more Southern-born and Southern-bred presidents after your misAdministration.
We could count your successor, Ulysses S. Grant, whose parents resided in Maysville, KY, and who owned a farm in Missouri with slaves.
Then, we might mention Thomas Woodrow Wilson, who was born in the Commonwealth of Virginia, grew up in the Carolinas, and who died south of said M-D Line. The Roosevelts had extensive family roots in Cobb County and Fulton County, Georgia, with the Bullochs, and FD had extensive holdings in Meriwether County, at Warm Springs. Then there's Harry S Truman, whose grandfather served in the CSA, and while he desegregated the armed forces, was wary of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Might I add two (2) Texans: Dwight D. Eisenhower (born in Denison, TX) and Lyndon Baines Johnson (Gillespie County, TX).
We might gainsay that JFK's family owned extensive holdings in Palm Beach County, FL, and RN was a Duke Law alum who resided at Key Biscayne, Dade County, FL.
Point Number 4: I'll especially honk my Yukon horn VERY, VERY LOUDLY down Monument Avenue in Greeneville when I finish my business in Nashville for your benefit!
HONK 'EM HORNS!!! TOOT!! TOOT!! BEEP!! BEEP!!