Stan Geiger

World Endorses Tax Hike Who Woulda Thunk It?

The bonehead editors at the Tulsa World, in this morning's edition, called for a yes vote on the TCC tax. That news should shock no one. The World endorses every tax hike proposal, period.

I suppose it is a newspaper's prerogative to espouse the view that everybody should be in an 80 percent tax bracket, but it would be nice if they came up with something new every now and then. This morning's editorial was full of the same tired drivel that appears in every World tax hike endorsement.

The writer threw out the old 'cup-of-coffee argument.' The tax hike would only be a few bucks a month. Hey, it's just a cup of coffee! C'mon!

The problem is, the government around here seems to want people drinking coffee by the pot.

The writer denigrated anyone opposed, calling them "anti-tax, anti-growth, anti-prosperity and anti-community." And said folks opposed to higher taxes "don't care what they tear down, so long as they don't have to pay for the conveniences of living in a civilized society."

What a hoot! Why don't the World editors just call their readers "knuckle-dragging butt faces" and save some ink.

I would be interested to know how saying no to high taxes is tearing anything down. What Randi Miller and her crew did to Bell's, see, that's tearing something down. The Lorton's turning historic downtown buildings into parking lots, that's tearing things down.

The article closed with the standard line of poop about how prospering TCC prospers the county. In other words, more tax money for public education equals prosperity for you.

Well, Tulsa County has 4 TCC campuses and 4 public-subsidized university campuses. There is also the Tulsa Technology Center---which, by the way, just gave longtime tax-mongering World editor Ken Neal's wife a cherry job. Tulsa Tech has morphed into a junior college, and it has 4 campuses.

Just how much prospering of education do we have to do before the prosperity for everybody else kicks in?

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