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Conservatives “Liberal” On Immigrant Tax

By Kleinheider Posted on August 20, 2008 at 10:00 am

Mike Byrd notes that several Metro Councilmen of a conservative bent eschewed their proclivity to vote against the raising of fees in one curious instance:

What needs to be underscored is the fact that many of the members on this list, Craddock, Gotto, Tygard, Hodge, Duvall claim to be conservatives on budget issues and they have railed and will rail against raising revenues through taxes or fees. This vote should come back to haunt them in the future whenever they grandstand and posture “for the taxpayers” against raising other fees.

And on the subject of opposing raising government fees, how come the Tennessee Tax Revolt didn’t aggressively oppose Eric Crafton’s attempt to raise interpreter’s fees? Is the Revolt more anti-immigrant than anti-fee?

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6 Responses to “Conservatives “Liberal” On Immigrant Tax”

  1. Matthew Hurtt writes
    August 20th, 2008 10:30 am

    No shout out to me?

    http://matthewhurtt.blogspot.com/2008/08/so-much-to-do-so-little-time.html

    Cite your sources, yo.

    :-)

    Have a good one.

  2. S-townMike writes
    August 20th, 2008 12:01 pm

    Assuming that Hurtt’s comment is directed toward me, I have no idea why he would assume that I used him as a source to formulate my own questions for TTR, especially considering the fact that I never knew that his blog existed before I clicked on the link that he posted here.

    I’ve been ribbed before for the high volume of links I put in posts. I give credit where it is due. In this case, believe it or not, I came up with the question without need of a Hurtt assist. Hard to believe, yes, but true.

  3. Matthew Hurtt writes
    August 20th, 2008 2:41 pm

    Sorry S-town -

    I wasn’t talking about you at all. In fact, as I posted on your blog, I didn’t even know who you were before this post.

    Thanks, though!

  4. Matthew Hurtt writes
    August 20th, 2008 2:43 pm

    Apparently, though -

    We had the same thought process. After reading your post, it appears we took this in the same direction, only on different sides of the aisle.

  5. S-townMike writes
    August 20th, 2008 3:04 pm

    Then, by all means, aim at ACK.

  6. Matthew Hurtt writes
    August 20th, 2008 3:12 pm

    I did.

    And it was only in jest.

    No harm. No fowl. Yea?

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