Beebe Offers A Glimpse Into Mindset Of "Public Servants" About Tax Cuts And Budgets

When asked about his plans to cut the grocery tax less than he promised, Governor Beebe isn't asked how the state can't afford to help taxpayers during tough economic times. Instead he's asked how the state can afford to spare any change in tough economic times.

Despite the fact that the governor isn't going to fulfill his promise to cut the entire grocery tax 3 years after he made it and that it is a paltry amount that will do very little to spur economic growth, the governor acts as if he's being very magnanimous.

It's not as if the governor's been really careful with our money. Remember when he just had to spend $75,000 of our money on a new chandelier for the Governor's Mansion?

All this talk is despite the fact that state government is projecting an increase in revenue and will, as always, continue to grow. In a time when the budgets of Arkansas taxpayers are shrinking, is there any excuse for state government not to do the same? After all, we are the ones who pay for the never ending growth of government, which the governor thinks is so hard to deprive. Why not deprive the government? They find it so easy to deprive us, to take food off our family dinner tables.

This is just one more disturbing glimpse into how these "public servants" view us as their servants. They can't spare a dime, much less any significant amount of OUR money, even when we're struggling. They MUST continue to grow government, while our family budgets struggle.

Governor, if you really want to be a taxcutter, slash taxes, slash government. Don't let it grow this year. Why not? Our budgets get slashed by government all the time. There is no excuse for the government to grow this year while our pantries grow empty.

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