Column: Property-tax vote could come back to bite taxpayers – Champaign News-Gazette

Jim Dey: "But few issues are ever really dead in politics. That’s why the progressive income tax issue is back; it’s the same wine, but in a shiny new bottle."
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Hello, Indiana!
1 year ago

Progressive policies are the same old Russian wine in a new bottle, vintage 1917.

Free at Last
1 year ago

Don’t worry. You slaves will dutifully vote for more taxes. The democrats know that you are not smart. They know you will never ask the definition of “rich”. They know your attention span is that of a gnat and you will never ask what limits there are on them redefining “rich” to include you. In short the simps and slaves will get exactly what their masters say they will get. Has it occurred to you that they believe your money belongs to them and they get to decide how much of it you keep?

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