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Senator, You Can Have My Answer Now If You’d Like

By Kleinheider Posted on November 16, 2009 at 1:18 pm

Phil Bredesen was none too pleased by the words state Sen. Mark Norris had placed in the paper under his byline on the budget:

“That is such nonsense. There’s always a little posturing there. The decision we took is, if we have the stimulus money, which the taxpayers of Tennessee have provided through their federal taxes, I’m not going to turn it away for some political posturing. We made all of the cuts we need to. We filled in some of them with stimulus money. I think it is a good thing to have somebody have a job for an extra year only if it’s a year. I didn’t read the column, but that’s just nonsense.”

More at Rick Locker’s Commercial Appeal.

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8 Responses to “Senator, You Can Have My Answer Now If You’d Like”

  1. Blue Raider writes
    November 16th, 2009 1:53 pm

    Lose some weight Norris and then come back to us on that.

  2. JaStep writes
    November 16th, 2009 1:58 pm

    Has Norris ever met a subject he wouldn’t whine about?

  3. Jon Jamsey writes
    November 16th, 2009 2:17 pm

    My master Ron Ramsey sayeth: “Dammit, Norris! Crawl back into that hole where I left you! Don’t you know that I roll like Bredesen when it comes to the budget?!”

  4. Vance Dennis writes
    November 16th, 2009 3:46 pm

    “The decision we took is, if we have the stimulus money, which the taxpayers of Tennessee have provided through their federal taxes….”

    It would be a bit more accurate to say that we have the stimulus money, which the federal government borrowed and obligated the taxpayers of Tennessee to repay…

  5. Bill Hobbs writes
    November 16th, 2009 4:10 pm

    Very true, Vance. The state constitution forbids the state of Tennessee from deficit-spending, yet it is deficit-spending by spending the stimulus funding. It just happens to be the federal deficit, so it doesn’t violate the letter of the state constitution.

  6. kentkuerit writes
    November 17th, 2009 2:33 am

    Bredesen v Norris. I hate it when Republican’s fight.

  7. Davy writes
    November 17th, 2009 6:49 am

    “yet it is deficit-spending by spending the stimulus funding.”

    Actually, since Tennessee is a state that takes in more money in federal services than it pays in federal taxes, and last time I checked the ratio was something like we get $1.23 for every $1 in federal taxes Tennesseans pay, aren’t Tennesseans ALWAYS deficit spending?

    And since Corker and Alexander proclaimed that ORNL would receive $94 million when Pres. Obama only requested half that in his budget, about $45 million, isn’t that more deficit spending?

  8. TNVolunteer73 writes
    November 17th, 2009 7:16 am

    Davy once again you show your ignorance of socialist policies

    you see under socialist policies socialist want a PROGRESSIVE income tax.

    Because of this SOCIALIST tax code people do not pay their fair share.

    You see the Cost of living in NY City is more expensive than Nashville TN.

    So people in NY City EARN MORE because they have to PAY MORE to live the same life style you live in Nashville.

    Since People live High on the Hog in TN at $50K/year,

    And have to earn 90K/year in NY City to live the same life style of someone in TN making $37,500/year

    The New Yorker has to pay much more in Taxes because of a higher tax bracket than a person in TN… Because of Socialism.

    But you see if this were a capitalist System, both would be paying the same rate and the person in NY City would only pay a proportional amount in Taxes instead of a Logrithmic rate in Tax Difference.

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