Incoming Dem leaders support income tax

[Rocketman]

Pitchforks come before passage, if necessary.  Thousands will march on Concord to remind the legislators who they work for, and I expect they will take the hint.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Here's how it goes:

Pass an income tax
Wait 2 years for people to stop caring
An R gets elected promising repeal
One or both of the state house and senate go back to R
The repeal bill gets a halfhearted passage from one, but not the other
"I tried" repeats the gov.
We're stuck with it forever

Or the gov goes to prison for taking (very little) money or services for influence peddling, like in CT

[anthonybpugh]

If they do pass the income tax and then someone comes along trying to repeal it.  Everyone will suddenly be coming out of the woodwork singing the praises of the income tax and how they cannot afford to cut it for fear of losing vital services.  Overnight the state's budget cannot do without something they have never had and you'd have parades of crying poor and half starved young mothers who would be thrown out in the cold.  Then you'd have to fight tooth and nail just to get rid of the damn thing.   

[GCG199]

Don't forget that one of the very first LP wins, was a repeal of the either income tax or sales tax in Alaska.

But let's hope that it doesn't get passed in the first place! We will have our work cut out for us, if certain folks don't keep their promises.

[Tyler Stearns]

Everyone will suddenly be coming out of the woodwork singing the praises of the income tax and how they cannot afford to cut it for fear of losing vital services.

These are the same people that are coming out of the woodwork right now after they got wind of the latest NHSC ruling on education funding.  They claim an income tax will solve all our problems and if we get one and try to repeal it they will tell us it did solve all our problems (or we didn't give it enough time).

[anthonybpugh]

they have the same problems in states that have the income tax.  That would one of those pesky little facts they would ignore.