[Alberta's Child]

You're exactly right. That is precisely why -- back in 2006 or 2007 when the state of New Jersey was facing a serious budget deficit -- a Democratic legislature and a Democratic governor raised the state sales tax from 6% to 7% rather than increase the top income tax rates.

They may have been Democrats, but they knew damn well that squeezing revenue out of middle- and low-income residents was an absolute necessity.

[concerned about politics]

They may have been Democrats, but they knew damn well that squeezing revenue out of middle- and low-income residents was an absolute necessity.

DUmmies are having a fit about this. They don't want to have to pay for anything. They want everyone else to pay.
It's all fine and dandy to them when other people are enslaved, but when it finally comes down to them it's a different story. Obviously, they don't understand the Marxism they voted for.