Newsletter: Sams Defuse Doomsday
Remember how the "We Demand" Coalition won an award for their efforts toward defeating the sales tax increase? The Sam Adams Alliance, which gave the awards, talked about the group in Wednesday's e-mail newsletter. To view this and other newsletter items, click here.
Here's what it said:
Modern-Day Sams Defuse Doomsday
December 26, 2007
In Ohio, Hamilton County Commission President Todd Portune has asked the county to “prepare for a doomsday scenario.”
Gee whiz, what’s going on? Is it terrorism? Global warming? Nuclear meltdown?
No. Nothing like that. It’s just that county voters said no to a sales tax increase. Portune and other politicians now feel honor-bound to scream that the sky will fall. But it won’t. Instead, as NAACP president Christopher Smitherman told county government, “You’ve got to tighten your belt.”
The tax increase was largely intended to build a new jail, which residents simply aren’t convinced they need. County commissioners met this voter skepticism with shrill arrogance. They passed a new sales tax increase, even though voters just a year ago turned one down.
Looked like voters would just have to lump it. Except that didn’t sit so well with Daniel Regenold and Jason Gloyd. So, they built a diverse coalition to fight the tax increase, including the NAACP, the Libertarian Party, Citizens Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes, the Green Party, as well as many volunteers.
Regenold started WeDemandaVote.com, which petitioned to put the tax increase on the ballot. Gloyd formed WeDemandaBetterPlan.com, which defeated the sales tax.
That’s why the Sam Adams Alliance just named the Daniel Regenold and Jason Gloyd of the We Demand coalition the 2007 winners of the Modern-Day Sam Adams award.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Post a Comment*Why was the Ed Rothenberg post taken down?
More cut-and-paste blogging!
Whooppee! When a fiscal crisis hits: first, you try to raise taxes (afterall, citizens are supposed to support their community) then, you cut services until they bleed (like Detroit), finally you file government bankruptcy forfeiting local control of programs that meet the specific needs of the community.
The difference between the people of the Boston Tea Party and the Sam Adams Alliance - is that citizens protested UNREPRESENTATIVE TAXATION and voluntarily raised their taxes to meet the needs upon getting the power in order to provide governed services and rights.
The Sam Alliance just opposes taxes altogether.
Their fights are different - one sought representation, the other seeks personal profits.
These are the same people who avoid their fair share of taxes, who avoided the draft, who send their kids to exclusive schools, and live in gated communities.
The comparisons are wayward and our failure to recognize the difference is the difference between Indianapolis and Detroit - take your pick.
If you can afford the gated communities, etc. support this agenda because everyplace else will end up like Detroit.
If you believe in REPRESENTATION that represents all citizens, in and out of the gated communities, you better look for a different agenda.
this has nothing to do with your right to vote at all. This about crime and punishment. When you live in a free society one of things you need is jails. Without incarcenation of criminals you will have serious problems. Granted we are locking up more people than the rest world is a problem what is the solution? The ones who are against this sales tax have NO SOLUTION thinks that money grows on tree and at times make a race issue which is ridiculous and stupid. Where is YOUR SOLUTION TO THIS? Cold reality is you spend money to make money. Creating programs do not work, and who will FORCE responibity to the criminals? NO ONE. THe result should be LOCK 'em and THROW AWAY THE KEYS. WHO NEEDS MORE THUGS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS
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