Bama in WaPo

Alabama has made today's WaPo twice. There's a (brief) story on the Ten Commandments rally, and this interesting piece on the tax package: Alabama Tied in Knots by Tax Vote. As the story demonstrated, it ain't your Daddy's Alabama politics.

And this frustrate me, because I think it represents a knee-jerk reaction to tax increases without really examining the structural problems in our state:

Now, the battle is taking on national dimensions, with conservative Republican groups in Washington mobilizing to defeat Riley's plan.

I believe that government is necessary, and that it has to be adequately funded to allow for certain services, amongst them being education, criminal justice, and roads. And while in my perfect world there would be more a market in the realm of K-12, I also know that that isn't going to happen anytime soon, so you have to work with what you've got.

Further, I see the ever-expanding federal share of the GDP in the form of taxation is a wholly different issue from state-level policy.

And, indeed:

"A Democrat couldn't have done this," Hubbard said. "Many say it's like Nixon going to China."

Yup: like me :)

Posted by Steven Taylor at August 17, 2024 12:53 PM | TrackBack