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July 14, 2005
Tax Cuts = Treason?
Jennifer Granholm, the governor of Michigan, is accusing state lawmakers of treason and suggesting they be removed from office for voicing their support of tax cuts in the Wall Street Journal
Last month the state legislature buried the Democratic Governor's top legislative priority, a grandiose proposal to raise taxes on insurance companies, banks and thousands of small businesses that private studies said would have cost up to 20,000 jobs. Ms. Granholm's plan was widely criticized, including in these columns in March and in an op-ed article on the opposite page last Thursday by state legislator Rick Baxter, a Republican, and Hillsdale College Professor Gary Wolfram.Governor Granholm probably just wanted to say that the policies of her political opponents would be bad for the state, but instead of simply using the word "bad," she had to go and try to convey how extra-super duper bad the policies would be by using the loaded word "treason." The use of that word can be explained through foolishness.Ms. Granholm was not pleased, going so far as to denounce the op-ed as "treasonous for the state of Michigan." The authors' high crime? Exposing Michigan as a high tax state and criticizing Ms. Granholm for wanting to raise taxes. Her choice of words was no inadvertent slip of the tongue, by the way--a Howard Dean-like temporary loss of sanity. The Governor has used the "t" word repeatedly and has even suggested that Mr. Baxter "should be removed from office."
The suggestion that those who advocate horrors such as tax cuts should be removed from office cannot be so easily explained away. Sounds as though the power of the governor's office and the attention she's received as the 'new face' of the Democratic party has gone to her head just a wee bit? Either way, Granholm should apologize for her words and learn the difference between disagreeing and just being disagreeable.(h/t: Ace)
Posted by slublog at July 14, 2005 09:50 AM
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