Anjeanette Damon of RJG.com writes about yet another cowardly, prevaricating politician:
Gov. Jim Gibbons released his full plan Tuesday for solving the $880 million budget shortfall, proposing two tax increases, further cuts to state agencies and education and allowing a private company to catch insurance scofflaw’s on the state’s roads
Gibbons, elected in 2006 on a promise not to raise taxes, wants to increase mining taxes $50 million by capping the tax deductions the industry enjoys and force in-state online vendors to pay sales tax on items sold within Nevada.
Here’s the kicker:
[Gibbons] said neither proposal violates his anti-tax pledge.
“That is not a tax increase if you look at it carefully,” Gibbons said about the mining-tax proposal. “That is simply clarifying the deductions that they are allowed to take.”
Why do we persist in electing bald-faced liars like this one to public office?
2 responses so far ↓
1 Ian // Feb 20, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Because if we didn’t, there would be no one sitting in the office?
2 Peter // Feb 22, 2010 at 9:43 am
Ian,
We probably deserve it because we don’t vote for people who tell the truth. We vote for people who tell us what we want to hear.
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