Posted on 02/28/2004 3:21:59 PM PST by Indy Pendance
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:11:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Former presidential candidate Howard Dean is creating a political organization to advance the issues that fueled his candidacy. So is his one-time campaign manager.
And while both the former Vermont governor and Joe Trippi say they intend to work in a complementary fashion, the efforts are spreading uncertainty among thousands of Web-savvy supporters of the fallen Democratic front-runner.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
hahahaha!
Sheesh. You gotta wonder about Howie, though, since he was dumb enough to hire Trippi in the first place. Wonder where all those millions went? And if the Toons got any of it?
WHAT ISSUES?
In over two years of listening to this little worm, I only heard what he was against.....little or nothing that he was for!
And every time he spouted that crap about being the ONLY candidate who had balanced a budget, I hurled.....
See below:
Dean's budget-balancing act left taxpayers in red
By Donald Lambro
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Vermont had one of the highest per capita tax burdens in the country when Howard Dean left the governorship in January to run for president. Mr. Dean, a Democrat who calls himself a "fiscal conservative," says he balanced all his state budgets by cutting spending. And allies and critics alike praise his budget-balancing record.
Vermont enjoyed a budget surplus this year while most states were in the red because of the recession that began three years ago. What the former governor doesn't say is that he raised hundreds of millions of dollars in higher taxes, including sales taxes, cigarette taxes, property taxes and corporate taxes, to balance the books while paying for his social welfare proposals.
After 11 years under Mr. Dean's governorship, Vermont now ranks in the top tier of high-tax states, a fiscal legacy that President Bush's campaign strategists say they intend to highlight should Mr. Dean become the Democratic presidential nominee next year.
Congressional Quarterly's Governing magazine, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, ranks Vermont second highest among the 50 states in the amount of tax revenue collected as a percentage of personal income in 2001 — about 9 percent to 10 percent.
In a separate ranking that measured state tax revenue per capita in 2001, Vermont was in second place with six other high-tax states, including Massachusetts and California.
Another ranking in June by the Government Finance Officers Association put Vermont in 12th place when state and local tax burdens are combined, well ahead of more populous industrial states such as New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois.
More at:WT
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