“overspending problem”
Words don’t even…
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Remember when the GOP loved their TEAbabies?
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Learning curves are for pussies.
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The sooner Norquist and his lunatic self-imposed leverage the GOP enable him to wield is tossed onto the dust-bin of history, the better our nation will be.
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Once again, why the hell does anyone think Norquist has any kind of reason to dictate policy? No one voted for him, and he didn’t vote for anyone.
Time for the politicians to be beholden to the voters…
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Wish it were so but beholden to the almighty dollar is more likely. ugghh
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Perhaps not
Grover being Grover - he’ll come out with some tortured logic reasoning why this is not “Really a breaking of his pledge” and insist that no one who has taken his pledge has actually broken it. So anyone thinking in the future of breaking it would be the first and would be made an example
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They’ll get it when businesses start going belly-up because no one is buying their services/wares.
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aka SOP for the GOP
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Three and a half more years of this kinna BS!
Weeeeeeee!!!
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Legislators should have to pass bookeepping 101 before signing anything.
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You mean, the Laffer Curve?
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I’ve been curious about how Norquist ever planned to enforce his pledge and why politicians of a certain persuasion seem loath to buck him. As you write, maybe this circumstance will reveal such things.
You sure raising taxes on the poor is against Norquist’s doctrinaire beliefs and ATR’s bullshit ideology? I thought that only applied to not raising taxes on corporate welfare, hidden off-shored bank accounts, anyone making over a million dollars, and capital gains.
Keep Crazy and Carry On Kansas.
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It’s okay to raise taxes on poor people, it’s the unwritten rule of the GOP.
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Definitely not. To me, that is a violation of their oath of office right there.
And the problem with cigarette taxes is not only do they target people with bad habits, but they start pushing people off of cigarettes and that reduces the amount of taxes being brought in.
Taxes on income and profits are about the only really stable way to bring in money to a government.
But sadly not before the people that voted them in get a dose of that medicine first. Let’s hope that the Kansas voters realize just how big a mistake they’ve made.
I’m not sure they will, though. They’re going to probably try to whine about it and find some excuse, but they won’t really see that they have no choice but to tell the Kochs and Norquist where to shove it until they realize they can’t fix their budget problem this way and they’re in even deeper trouble.
Nah, their pledge to the Constitution is pretty much fungible. After all, they can claim they know what the Constitution really says. They do that all the time.
Wait…what’s that? Do I hear a “glug…glug…glug…” coming from the Norquist’s bathroom? Seems to me Governor Brownback has drawn Mr. Norquist’s bath.
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