Well, This Was Certainly Unexpected
Wow. I mean, nobody could have seen this coming. The teacher pay equalization issue has some legislators suggesting an income tax as the solution. I am shocked. Shocked! After all, Phil "I'll Waffle On IT Under the Right 'Conditions'" Bredesen has promised us the income tax is "dead." And all those income tax supporters planning on voting for him, well, just pay no attention to them.

As I said on here a few days ago, the teacher pay equalization ruling is a political godsend for Van Hilleary. It's revived the income tax issue.

Please note that the Democrats quoted in the story favor "more revenue," to equalize teacher pay, while the Republicans favor finding the money within existing revenue by shifting priorities and reducing rampant wasteful spending in the state's $21 billion budget. They actually think they can find $400 million - or less than 2 percent of the total budget - in "waste" and in shifting priorities. But that's silly. As the story below shows, there is no wasteful spending in state government...