Henry is right on the spot again…
Despite the fact that the governor isn’t going to fulfill his promise to cut the entire grocery tax 3 years after he made it and that it is a paltry amount that will do very little to spur economic growth, the governor acts as if he’s being very magnanimous.
It’s not as if the governor’s been really careful with our money. Remember when he just had to spend $75,000 of our money on a new chandelier for the Governor’s Mansion?
All this talk is despite the fact that state government is projecting an increase in revenue and will, as always, continue to grow. In a time when the budgets of Arkansas taxpayers are shrinking, is there any excuse for state government not to do the same? After all, we are the ones who pay for the never ending growth of government, which the governor thinks is so hard to deprive. Why not deprive the government? They find it so easy to deprive us, to take food off our family dinner tables.
We need to cut the Grocery Tax all the way and we need to reign in government waste…Then we need to cut the income tax…Plain and simple…Republicans need propose a ton of tax cuts and they need to stick together and vote for them…heck they may even get some Democrats to go along with them…
Of course the Democrats have no principles and they are doing an about face…It looks like they will seat him…Even though one of the most corrupt officials ever appointed him…
Earlier, Reid, D-Nev., emerged with Durbin from a private meeting they had in the Capitol building with Burris, the former attorney general of Illinois.
Reid said the Senate was awaiting that court ruling by the state court that tests whether the White has to put his signature on Burris’ letter of appointment. White has taken the position that Blagojevich, accused of seeking to benefit financially from filling Obama’s seat, did not have legal authority to make the appointment.
Of Burris, Reid told reporters: “We don’t have a problem with him as an individual.”
And both he and Durbin, D-Ill., dramatically softened their party’s opposition to seating any Blagojevich appointee.
Knowledgeable Senate officials said the visual embrace of Burris was meant to show acceptance of his personal and professional qualifications, an indication that opposition to seating him was waning.
