TAX ME, NOT THAT FELLOW BEHIND THE TREE!

11/9/10

So now Governor Quinn (no relation) is parading around telling everyone that his election was a “mandate” for an income tax increase.

Hmm…

There is a chance that an income tax increase is necessary in order to dig ourselves out of the hole into which the bi-partisan political establishment that controls this state has thrust us. There is an even smaller chance that the electorate agrees that such a tax increase is necessary. But the claim that Governor Quinn’s election was a “mandate” for such a tax increase would be lot more credible if his campaign theme were something like

A vote for Quinn (no relation to Mark Quinn) is a vote for higher taxes

rather than what it actually was, to wit,

Vote for Quinn because his opponent is an atavistic misogynist who wants to jail people for their sexual orientation and force women to carry the unborn children of rapists. And he’s not too bright. And he hates you.