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The Blog for Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Holy Hipocrisy!

    More tax cuts for wealthy Floridians and businesses: "Bush proposes tax cuts". See also "Gov. Bush's budget cuts taxes for wealthy; raises tuition". "Jeb!"
    on Tuesday sent the Legislature a $61.6-billion budget proposal for next year that boosts school spending and cuts taxes while raising college tuition and cutting health care to the poor.
    "Budget would grow, and cut". More precisely,
    Tax breaks were lavished chiefly on wealthier Floridians and corporations that have always supported the Republican governor ...
    "Schools, tax cuts rule in governor's budget". It isn't all bad for those of us who haven't "always supported the Republican governor"; if "Jeb!" has his way, the peons will get that fabulous nine-day sales-tax "holiday" for clothes and school supplies. But most importantly, the leader of Florida's moral values brigade wants to remove a government disincentive on, of all things, booze, by eliminating a tax on beer, wine and liquor sold at bars and restaurants. Why, that's holy hipocrisy!

    And there's more hipocrisy - those Floridians not part of the Gullivers Prep set ("Jeb!" sent his son there), well, too bad when you send that kid off to college:
    Tuition would jump at state universities and community colleges.
    More GOoPer values.

    And isn't it tiring to read about our so-called "chugging economy", when any economic growth we have had is, not due to any GOoPer policy, but rather is attributable to a
    sizzling real-estate market and rebuilding after last year's four hurricanes ...
    Let's see how long that lasts.

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