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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Tags: Charlie Tygard, Eric Crafton, Jim Gotto, Michael Craddock, Mike Hodge, Robert Duvall