Tax-cut death toll

[marmar]

from TomPaine.com:


Tax-cut death toll
Submitted by Rick Perlstein on August 2, 2007 - 10:41am.


The bridge-collapse tragedy is a teachable moment: This is your government on conservatism.

This year two Democratic Minnesotan legislatures passed a $4.18 billion transportation package. Minnesota's Republican governor vetoed it because he had taken a no-new-taxes pledge, Grover Norquist-style. That's just what conservative politicians do.

The original bill would have put over $8 billion toward highways, city, and county roads, and transit over the next decade. The bill he let passed spent much less.

Now four people are dead, and counting.

"Much more needs to be done, but the advocates overreached," Pawlenty said concerning his veto. "I told leaders that if they came in with a more reasonable plan, maybe the results would have been different."

Yes, maybe they would have been different indeed.

http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/tax_cut_death_toll?tx=3

[LordJFT]

1. "read my lips: 4 people dead"

[Captain Angry]

2. I caught 2 minutes of MSNBC today.

And they were interviewing some guy who said that today, everybody wants the bridges safe. But in two days, when they find out their taxes will go up, those same people will complain.

Sounds good to me. Those people never get to use a bridge again. They can go around.