Seeing The Income Tax Tree Though The Forrester
Posted on January 25, 2009 at 6:20 pmThe Tennessee Republican Party welcomes the Tennessee Democratic Party’s new chair:
NASHVILLE - The Tennessee Republican Party will continue to oppose creation of a state income tax even though the Tennessee Democrat Party has just elected a new chairman whose idea of “change” is the state taking more of it out of your pocket via an income tax.
In 1999, as a member of his party’s executive committee, new TNDP chairman Chip Forrester voted for a resolution calling for creation of a state income tax of 2.5 percent, to raise an additional $2 billion for a state government that had already proven unwilling to live within its means.
By contrast, the Tennessee Republican Party came out firmly and unequivocally against the proposed state income tax in 1999 - and has remained staunchly opposed to it.
“The Tennessee Democrat Party for years has tried to hide its pro-income tax stance, knowing that most Tennesseans, including many of their own voters, oppose the tax and believe the state’s budget problems are caused by too much spending, not by too little taxes,” said Bill Hobbs, communications director for the Tennessee Republican Party.
“By choosing as chairman someone who advocated for and voted for a state income tax, the leadership of the Tennessee Democrat Party has done the people of Tennessee a service: they have clarified for all to see that the Tennessee Democrat Party wants an income tax. When Chip Forrester and the liberal candidates he will recruit to run for the state legislature promise ‘change,’ what they really will be planning is a return to pushing ideas that Republicans and most Tennesseans rejected a decade ago.”
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21 Responses to “Seeing The Income Tax Tree Though The Forrester”
“By contrast, the Tennessee Republican Party came out firmly and unequivocally against the proposed state income tax in 1999 - and has remained staunchly opposed to it.”
How the hell does he ignore Don Sundquist’s role?
Thats what the do DG. Sundquist is the Godfather of this. Or did they forget.
Well, it took about 5 mins for the Chairman Chip to unravel. This would be Exhibit A for why moderate Democrats will abandon the TNDP in a matter of days.
OH GREAT!!!! Now we have a pro income tax Chairman.
What is wrong with our state party?
And let me guess, Forrester was elected with the full support of the House Democrats. Naifeh never gives up.
The people of Tennessee DO NOT want an unconstitutional income tax. How many times do we have to say it before despots like Forrester listen? Consumption taxes are fairer because everyone pays the same rate and you only pay for what you use. Forrester is dead wrong to support an income tax.
At the same time Forrester was advocating this, the pre-eminent Republican in the state was ALSO advocating an income tax.
You’re not going to get away with this distortion of reality.
The good thing about this being on ACK’s blog is that all the frauds who have been pretending to be Democrats to stir the pot will either have to side with Hobbs’ bullshit and prove themselves to be liars, or will knock it off in public. That’s the great thing about Hobbs: he can unite Democrats like nothing else.
I’m a Democrat but sorry to admit I side with Hobbs here. So consider us “un-united.” You can point to Sundquist as the counter-balance. But the reality is, he’s been gone for six years. Chip was elected party chair yesterday. His views are relevant. He should make a firm statement for or against the income tax first thing Monday a.m. If he doesn’t, then he’s just the kind of so-called DINO he accuses the elected Democrats of being.
Harrison, you’re full of crap.
Well I am a Democrat, but I don’t side with Hobbs.
I guess I will support our pro income tax Chairman.
This should really help in the House and Senate races.
DG, you seem like a smart person. Let’s stop feeding the trolls. These people are yesterday’s news.
Yo B Ho- please explain to me why the republicans just put the “brains” behind the income tax in the state comptroller’s office. Justin Wilson shows your true colors more than anything!
Sorry DG. Why don’t you spend less time shitting on pre-K and more time defending Chip’s pro income-tax positions. Maybe then you’ll embrace your true inner Democrat. In the meantime, the rest of us will keep subscribing to the pro-Cooper-Tanner-Bredesen-Davis-Gordon-Ford view of low taxes, quality services and realistic governing.
This is a nightmare. Like The Teminator. These income tax people won’t go away. Wilson runs our taxes. Naifeh runs the House. And Forrester runs the Democratic Party. How long before they try to pass an income tax again?
I give it a year
What’s the “Democrat Party”? Never heard of it.
Sundquist and Wilson are just Democrats pretending to be Republicans. This proves it. This just proves it. Forrester needs to tell what the rest of his role in the income tax push has been and will be.
Ah, the truth will out. Now we see why Bredesen, et al opposed Forrester. This is a battle between the pro-income tax wing of the Democratic Party and the anti-income tax wing of the Democratic Party. While I suppose some cudos go to Davis, Tanner, Bredesen, etc. for trying to preserve party unity by running a candidate against Forrester rather than simply outing him, they should have taken note of the fact that the very people that voted for the income tax, the party executive committee, are the very people that elect the chairman. This was a fight on the turf of the income tax cabal. The anti-income taxers couldn’t win from the start. They should have gone public with Forrester’s true nature before the vote.
Bill Hobbs is right. The Tennessee Democratic Party is now out of the shadows as the Tennessee Income Tax Party.
When Democrats said we wanted to define the party, this is not what we meant. I am so bummed.
Agreed. I think I feel worse today about the TNDP than I did on election night. Blah…
Once again the TNDP allows the TNGOP to define them and dictate the rules of engagement for control of the battlefield. Sadly, it appears that even some Democratic voters buy in to this stuff.