This idiot has big plans for exspansion....he'll expand TN into a mound of debt, just like he did Nashville! Hang on to you anti tax signs and be ready to use them. This prince of a spending frog will come out of the box spending...bet on it!
I spoke with two State Senators together prior to the Monday Night Football game versus the Patriots a couple of weeks ago. Both are RATS and both have been against an income tax. They told me that this latest court ruling will allow Naifeh to force his income tax down our throats with little opposition from either side of the aisle in the General Assembly.
Our General Assembly looks for the easy way out of all difficult matters. Maybe we need to work at cleaning oot the entire General Assembly at every opportunity and make it a duty for the common citizen and not a career postion as some have made it.
Between now and the 14th of Jan. I expect to read in my Tennessean of a pending $600 million+ shortfall when the judicially-mandated teacher-equalization pay suit and the re-enrollment of 200,000 Tenn-Care "patients" are added together.
Another prediction: Bredesen will suggest or simply direct the transfer of the existing funds in the Transportation Department to the General Fund and an issuance of State-backed bonds to fund road construction in his first term.
I even see a major-league baseball team and field in Tennessee's future.
Also, given B's dislike of Mayor Purcell in Nashville, I wouldn't be surprised to see a call for elimination of much of the revenue-sharing from sales taxes, especially for Nashville.
It should be an interesting year.