A Crazy Kind of Logic

2009-06-23 - byCarter Wrenn
Over in the legislature, the Democrats took out an axe and cut just about every program in sight from education to health care – and each Democratic legislator voted for it.
 
Then once the Democrats had made half the state mad they turned around and supported a billion dollar tax increase – and made the other half mad.

Now there seems to be a strange kind of logic at work here: The Democrats seem believe if they cut every Sacred Cow in sight, sit back and wait for the gnashing of teeth and hair pulling to reach a crescendo, it will suddenly become popular (or less unpopular) to vote for tax increases.

But they missed a key fact: People oppose tax increases because they believe there is waste in government – plenty of it.

And the Governor spending $170,000 to send Department of Commerce executives  to Paris for an air show, and legislators voting to spend $25 million to build a fishing pier (with a  16,000 square foot club house and ballroom) at Nag’s Head – seems to confirm it.

So, in the end all the Democrats really accomplished was making everyone – on both sides – mad at them. They might have done better to just pick their poison in the beginning and stick with it. Instead, given a choice between two unpopular positions they managed to endorse both: And gave just about everyone a reason to vote against them. 
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A Crazy Kind of Logic

2009-06-23/Carter Wrenn
Over in the legislature, the Democrats took out an axe and cut just about every program in sight from education to health care – and each Democratic legislator voted for it.
 
Then once the Democrats had made half the state mad they turned around and supported a billion dollar tax increase – and made the other half mad.

Now there seems to be a strange kind of logic at work here: The Democrats seem believe if they cut every Sacred Cow in sight, sit back and wait for the gnashing of teeth and hair pulling to reach a crescendo, it will suddenly become popular (or less unpopular) to vote for tax increases.

But they missed a key fact: People oppose tax increases because they believe there is waste in government – plenty of it.

And the Governor spending $170,000 to send Department of Commerce executives  to Paris for an air show, and legislators voting to spend $25 million to build a fishing pier (with a  16,000 square foot club house and ballroom) at Nag’s Head – seems to confirm it.

So, in the end all the Democrats really accomplished was making everyone – on both sides – mad at them. They might have done better to just pick their poison in the beginning and stick with it. Instead, given a choice between two unpopular positions they managed to endorse both: And gave just about everyone a reason to vote against them. 
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