Amid all the mess in the 2009 General Assembly, from tax increases and the raid of the Health Fund to the failure of prevailing wage reform and government transparency bills (here and here), a recent Kentucky survey suggests widespread awareness of Frankfort's shenanigans.
Americans for Prosperity surveyed 600 Kentuckians and found 58 percent were dissatisfied with the legislature's handling of tax and budget issues. The survey was taken January 22-27, before the tax hikes and the $50 million health fund raid.
The survey also found 49% of respondents viewed wasteful spending on programs that don't work to be the most important issue in state budgeting, according to an AFP press release.
Repealing CATS testing, of course, helps some on that front.
More on the survey here.
Monday, March 16, 2009
42% of Kentuckians from another planet
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"Failure of prevailing wage reform" is just some more of your feudalistic economics. Higher wages produce greater prosperity and more profits for businesses.
Roosevelt's Hamiltonian New Deal, the growth of unions and the GI Bill in the 1930s and 40s produced the largest middle class in this nation's history.
Granted, you idolize paupers (Cato Institute) because they pay less taxes than American workers. That workers were paupers doesn't seem to bother you.
Bluegrass Institute would rather see Kentuckians reduced to pauperism than to have prevailing wages (wages that provide for a family's "necessaries and conveniences" according to Adam Smith, the father of capitalism).
Bluegrass Institutes loathes and detests capitalism and Hamiltonian economics because of their John Stuart Mill's utilitarianism (the greatest good for the greatest number) philosophy.
MIll correctly identified conservatives when he wrote: "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
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