Thursday, July 29, 2010
Politics McWherter Accuses Haslam of Lying About the State Income Tax
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:25 PM
Nashville, TN — Mike McWherter, Jackson businessman and candidate for governor, calls Bill Haslam out for lying to the Associated Press about his family’s role in advocating for a state income tax.Yesterday while discussing his father’s role in the 1999 income tax debate with the Associated Press, Bill Haslam said, “He [Zach Wamp] makes it sound like my dad was out leading the effort, which is not true.”
Jimmy Haslam, Bill Haslam’s father and Pilot Oil’s founder, served as one of four board members for an advocacy group known as Citizens for Fair Taxation. The four member board raised over $1.8 million for a publicity campaign supporting Gov. Don Sundquist’s push for a state income tax.
“Bill Haslam has lied to the people of Tennessee.” said Mike McWherter. “I am frankly disappointed that Bill would purposefully mislead Tennessean’s, this appears to a common theme for his campaign. Tennesseans deserve a Governor who knows the truth when he sees it.”
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It looks like mike is attacking a bet early ,may be he has figured it out that he has no chance against haslam and great chance against ramsey and wamp,.
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I certainly would have paid less taxes with a state income tax than with the 10% food sales tax.
I'd pay a shit-ton more in state taxes if TN had an income tax, but I still support it - especially if it were progressive.
Let me get this straight: The Democratic candidate for Governor, Big Daddy Junior, calls a press conference to denounce the father (?) of the only sane Republican candidate for Governor for supporting a progressive income tax for Tennessee, a change in our funding process that would free us from being the most regressively taxed state in the union.
Big Daddy Junior complains that the father of his rival was willing to absorb a tax hit (on his income and that of his family) that would likely equal what 10,000 average Tennesseans would have to pay if we had an income tax. Big Daddy Junior rants that it's wrong to change a system that has us tithing to our state government for everything we buy, without relief. And Big Daddy Junior thinks this will sell with rank-and-file Democrats here. (Sadly, it just might.)
And people wonder why I'm a small "d" democrat.
Vote for Basil -- the only honest man in the race. (We could have had an honest woman, and potentially a winning Democratic candidate in Kim McMillan, but noooo ...)
