GOP Extremism in the States

Everybody knows Republicans would never, ever support tax increases (or at least haven?t for decades until weak-kneed RINOs allowed Barack Obama to boost income taxes on the wealthy lest they go up on the middle class as well). Yet just beneath the surface of a generation of anti-tax rhetoric has lurked a powerful desire to raise taxes on the non-wealthy in order to cut them for ?job creators.? It has been implicit for years in various ?flat tax? schemes or consumption tax ?reform? schemes, and of course in the ill-suppressed rage over the ?lucky ducky? working poor with no income tax liability.

But sometimes, and usually at the state level, the drive for a more regressive tax system that simply redistributes the tax burden down the income scale becomes explicit. That was manifested just yesterday when Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal proposed boosting his state?s sales tax in order to abolish income and corporate taxes altogether.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/01/11/gop_extremism_in_the_states_299591.html

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