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Is this Valentine guy legit, or a radio muckraker?

Hardly the latter. (I've interviewed him as a newscaster in Knoxville.) He and his co-host sponsored a spontaneous demonstration last summer when the TN Legislature tried to sneak the same thing through. The pro-tax forces are quaking over the thought of a similar horn-honking protest happening again, and hope to head it off at the pass.

The whole damn thing's unconstitutional, but if they can pass it, it will have to be "undone." And trust me, my foes and friends, once it's entrenched, it will NEVER LEAVE.

The federal income tax (1916) was temporary...withholding (1942)was temporary...Social Security (1936) was never supposed to be more than 2%.

Once they get their hooks in, the hooks go nowhere but deeper. The really sad part is that Tennessee, one of only nine states without an income tax, is trashed by the other 31 for fighting so fiercely against one.

Maybe it's envy....

I used to enjoy Phil's radio show every morning here in Philadelphia on WWDB a few years back. He was great, and at that time the station was one of the best talk radio stations in the nation. They then decided to replace people like Phil Valentine and Tom Marr (from Baltimore) with non-political lightweights and the station quickly self-destructed. I think it is a top 40 station now.

But talk radio doesn't get better than Phil Valentine and he is a passionate and genuine veteran.