IIRC, a couple of years ago a bunch of these rat bastards actually flew to Connecticut to confer with their resident thieves as to how best lie, deceive, cheat, bully, scare, and generally scare Tennesseans into accepting an income tax.
The one saving grace we have had is that the Weikert tactic of vetoing budgets isn't as effective here; it only takes a 50%+1 vote here to override a veto by the Gub'ner as opposed to a 60% or 66% or whatever in Connecticut.
You are correct, although I think it was only about a year ago. The advantage we Tennesseans have that those in Connecticut didn't have is the internet. Today, in Tennessee, a little stroll over to google.com reveals the political strategies, demogougery, and the predictable scare tactics that statist tyrants employ to pass oppressive and unconstitutional income taxes on the people of Tennessee.
Unfortunately, in 1991 our compatriots in CT weren't so fortunate as to have the transparency of their legislative leaders' motives so easily exposed and many were either deceived or caught off guard.
In this way, TN has a big advantage in that in this big poker game of a state income tax, we've already seen the hand that Naifeh, Rochelle, and Sundquist are holding.
I'm not folding. I'll see you're bluff and raise you, Don.