By: Zan Green, Founder, Rainy Day Patriots
Dear Governor Robert Bentley,
When you can say to the Producers who reside in our great state that there is not a smidgen of waste in Montgomery, that not one person is on state assistance because they refuse to work, but only because they truly need help, then we can talk taxes.
When the bloated and duplicated welfare handouts are no longer wasted on the drug-using television watcher or the steak-purchasing grocery shopper, then we can talk taxes.
When Alabama is a sovereign state and no longer taking federally-mandated money and required to bow to the alphabet soup of liberal regulators — like the EPA that cripples our tax base and destroys our Alabama jobs — then we can talk taxes.
When the state school superintendent no longer receives a 25 percent pay raise for no apparent reason, and an educational curriculum is no longer forced upon our public schools with no funding mechanism, then maybe we can talk taxes.
But until the Producers see that day, we will remind you the state of Alabama exists because we do. We do the work. We pay taxes on our income and then again on just about everything our money buys. Yes, Alabama’s taxes are low compared to most states, but we don’t live in those places. We live in Alabama, where you were elected Governor on a promise not to raise taxes.
So don’t.
Zan Green is the founder of the Rainy Day Patriots
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