How to con friends and influence people
Submitted by gregflynn on Wed, 12/13/2006 - 10:34am
The John Locke Foundation and Freedomworks are orchestrating an imminent media flurry of Bill Graham friendly anti-tax snow-jobs over a non-issue by claiming that an "option" to tax will result in a $1 billion tax hike. They are hoping to get a lot of mileage from a 4-page "report", replete with "ifs", "mights", "coulds" and "woulds"..
Dick Armey himself sent this FreedomWorks alert out Monday Dec 11th:
My fellow freedom-loving friends, I have an urgent message for you. Legislators in Raleigh are planning a new $1 billion tax hike for North Carolina. As our friends at the John Locke Foundation have pointed out in a new study, “Their scheme would take one cent from the 2.5-cent local sales tax and give it to the state. In exchange, the state would give local governments the option to raise the sales tax rate by another cent.”
It seems he didn't have much to do over the weekend and while hoary old chestnuts were roasting on an open fire and sacred cows were turning on spits above he snuggled up with a copy of the John Locke "report", issued on Thursday Dec 7th, which mainly serves as a summary of JLF talking points on privatization, cost reduction and tax reduction
Meanwhile puppet vocalist Mitch Kokai coyly writes this morning Dec 13th:
Watch for more sales tax shenanigans in the weeks ahead.
Which points to the press release for the 4-page "report" also issued Dec 7th.
Also this morning Dec 13th Carolina Journal posts an "Exclusive" touting the report:
JLF Warns of Billion-Dollar Tax Scheme
By CJ Staff
RALEIGH — Legislative leaders might try to use sleight of hand and a series of political deals to raise taxes by nearly $1 billion, concludes a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Some exclusive. It consists almost entirely of word-for-word paragraphs from the press release for the 4-page "report".
The press release is packaged with the obligatory audio description for talk radio sound bites. John Hood's editorial column can't be too far behind.
Get ready for a self-righteous tsunami of self-referential obsequiousness.
I am sooooo sick of these guys.
Ya know, after awhile, it gets to be too much.
All I hear is the same fundementalist Neo-con/libertarian party crap - day in and day out.
Damn, I can't express how much this pisses me off.
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Just another
John Locke/John Hood/Carolina Journal circle jerk, eh?
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
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