5/2/02 The Nashville City Paper
Jimmy Naifeh, speaker of the House, surrounded by a score of legislators, told the crowd, “Those horn-honkers don’t bother me worth a damn! I would rather be dealing with real people like you, people who work for a living.”
The crowd applauded when Naifeh said he was “very hopeful” the General Assembly could pass tax reform “in the month of May.”
Rep (David Davis), with the agreement of Crowe and Patton, said a shortfall in the current budget of upwards of $350 million is a "real deficit,'' while past budgets "artificially" inflated expenditures to produce a deficit. (The Kingsport Times)
And next year or the year after that, these scumbags will simply raise the sales taxes right back up. I sure hope the Tennessee electorate has the guts and the fortitutde to bury any politician, like this clown Westmoreland, who supports this disgraceful con-job. Don't let these scumbags wear you down.