The Gift

By Kleinheider Posted on July 31, 2008 at 6:15 pm

Jim Grinstead is not the largest fan of the concept of the tax-free holiday:

We don’t need to shortchange all Tennesseans to help families who need aid. Schools know what families take advantage of free or reduced price lunches and the state could easily use that data to provide relief.

But prudent management such as that doesn’t allow politicians facing an election to paint rosy pictures about a government that will be facing increasing fiscal challenges.

Ben West and other public officials want us to see the tax free weekend as their gift to us while what they are doing is reducing the services we’re paying for in the hopes of reaping political gain. Taxes aren’t a punishment. They are the cost of operating a civil society.

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