January 13, 2007

Elitism on Parade

The Tennessean interviewed Gov. Phil Bredesen about his second-term agenda, and it's an eye-opener. In the interview, Bredesen confirms that he's considering raising the gas tax, but doesn't want to lower the tax on groceries to help the state's poorer residents because, he believes, the state can spend that "extra dollar" better than the poor can. It's not just an "extra dollar," of course - if a poor family spends $100 a week on groceries, sales tax on food costs them $312 a year in sales tax.

Oh, and Gov. Bredesen also confirms that he's involved in secret negotiations to give millions of dollars to Toyota - which made $3.4 billion in profits in just one quarter last year - and admits that he would deliberately deceive the legislature, the representatives of the people in our representative form of government, if he thought it was necessary.