State Senate candidate Kathy Stein repeated a line in a Lexington debate yesterday about increasing college costs in Kentucky representing a stealth tax increase. She has used this line repeatedly this year as a way to claim Senate Republicans are lying when they say they stood up to tax increases in the 2008 session.
Stein is right in the sense that increasing prices for anything with government involvement comes out of consumers' pockets no differently than a tax increase would. Sort of like higher medical costs or corporate welfare or public employee benefits.
Of course, throwing more tax dollars, as Stein would do, is no solution to the quandary she seeks to point out.
Getting costs under control is the answer we are looking for. Something like the Texas Tuition Promise Fund could help.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Kathy Stein is right
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Kathy is right. Not only do Republicans pass on the cost of a government service to the consumers, they also promote inflation. The inflated costs is another Republican tax scam.
Republicans oppose any effort that would allow competition with fossil fuels.
They oppose the legalization of hemp because hemp biofuels can replace fossil fuels.
Let's don't get carried away, Hempy. Printing money excessively is a decidedly bipartisan affair. I don't have a problem with hemp at all. I'd risk a few wacky weeds surviving in order to reinstitute wide usage of hemp. But this idea that any politicians are choking off competition to fossil fuels is just silly. The free enterprise system doesn't depend on government largesse as much as you suggest. Exxon is scrambling to figure out how to run cars on hydrogen -- and, if it helps you, Republicans helped blow up our food costs encouraging us to run our cars on corn.
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