No, that was a state income tax the 'Rats were trying to push through. According to the Tennessee State Constitution, a state income tax is unconstitutional. The then 'Rat controlled Legislature, fully supported by our then RINO Gooberner Don Sundquist (aka Taxquist), tried virtually every means at their disposal to push this unconstitutional tax through. They closed parks, cut school bus services, etc. All the things that would make the average Joe mad. Trouble is, it didn't work quite as planned. Protesters, including me, surrounded the Capital building daily for about three weeks. The Legislators were truly scared. Fast forward nine years and guess what? We don't have a state income tax and all the doom and gloom talk the Legislature and the Gooberner said was coming our way never materialized. What did happen is they were forced to rein in TennCare, which was the state's version of Hillarycare. TennCare is/was a boondoggle of epic proportions from top to bottom....
What did happen is they were forced to rein in TennCare, which was the state’s version of Hillarycare.
Just amazing isn’t it. Instead of pillaging the public, they were forced to do what should have been done years before. The public forced the issue, “by the consent of the Governed”, or in this case the consent being peacefully withdrawn.
I remember that. I was going to UT at the time and all the faculty were 100% convinced that without a state income tax Tennessee would be DOOMED. The profs would work stuff about the tax into their lectures. But of course TN did fine without the tax.