Perry Supported Tax Hikes Before He Opposed Them

The Texas Tribue ^ | 8/26/2011 | Jay Root

[STD]

Perry’s not who he’s trying so hard to be now! Can you say Bush Two Lite

[driftless2]

At one point in his life, Ronald Reagan supported FDR. Thomas Sowell was a Marxist when he was a young adult. What’s your point? In his past, Perry wasn’t perfect?

[CharlesWayneCT]

People would avoid paying ANY taxes, if they thought they could get away with it. Want to see your military operate with no money? Want to see how long the street lights work, the pot holes are filled, the police arrest criminals, or the fire department puts out fires, when nobody pays their taxes?

The Use Tax is the canary in the coal mine, that people no longer have any interest in obeying laws, EXCEPT at the point of a gun. I say that because we’ve long known that liberals don’t like laws. Whenever they can, they riot, loot, and otherwise ignore whatever laws they don’t like.

But with the Use Tax, we now have conservatives bragging about breaking the law and cheating on their taxes.

I don’t mind a principled stand against sales taxes, although you have to actually make the argument, and explain what tax you think is better for funding state and local government.

But simply cheating on the tax because you can isn’t principled, it’s cowardly. If you want to show the people speaking on the merits, SEND IN the form with your purchases, and write “0” for amount owed. Do the Civil Disobedience thing.

Go to your legislature and ask them to repeal the use tax, if you think it’s bad.

I guess for you, if people want to volunteer to not rob you on the street, that’s fine with you, but we shouldn’t expect them not to do so. “The people have spoken” — that’s the mantra at every RIOT, every FLASH MOB, every SEIU Rally. When the unions tried to shut down WIsconsin’s legislature to stop Walker, that was “the people speaking”, i.e. those willing to break the law to get their way.

[beandog]

I don’t believe any state should be able to charge me tax on things I buy in other states simply because I live in said state. The state of Maryland, where I live, does not own me. I pay income tax, real estate tax and any other tax on things that I buy here. It should be none of their business if I choose to buy something elsewhere.

If this was the case than Maryland should not be able to charge sale tax on anything somebody buys in Maryland that does not live in Maryland.

We have become slaves to the state we happen to live in.