[Registered]

THOSE IDIOTS! They should do what Michigan is planning to do! UP THE CIGARETTE TAX!!! ;-)

[Arkinsaw]

Scare tactic involving the income tax fight.

[Darth Sidious]

Tennesseans awoke Monday to find their government in a partial shutdown...

Now that is a good thing to wake up to on a Monday!

[TomServo]

"We I've been at this four years. Every day we I put it off, we I do a little more damage to Tennessee families," Sundquist said.

This is a more accurate statement.

[Jay W]

Tennessee should be broken up into two states, one of them being the restored, old State of Franklin.

[Redbob]

Stands to reason Taxquist is going to keep the state troopers around; they're all that's standing between him and a big bucket of tar!

[lds23]

Maybe Atlas will Shrug after all....

[Tennessee_Bob]

Guess it's a good thing I didn't get selected for that state job.

[monkeywrench]

"...keeping some 22,000 workers home this week."

And when people notice the sun will still rise, as usual, they may begin to wonder how many of these 22,000 were ever needed to begin with.

[maximus@Nashville]

Actually, they only furloughed "non-essential" personnel. This is a begining. If a person is "non-essential" send them a pink slip. We do not want to be taxed in order fund "non-essential" services.

We paid a lot of money for Tennessee legislatures to travel to Conneticut to study how they were able to pass an income tax, and it seems the Tennessee legislatores are following their lesson plan.