Young couples are forced to place children in day care so both parents can work full time. Our quality of life is lessened by a repressive tax burden. I also asked my colleagues in the Assembly and the Senate to sign the pledge with me. Only two of them did. The Legislature has succumbed to the lure of spending.
Every interest group wants money.
Support spending for that interest group, and they ll vote for you. Oppose them, and get ready to read the bad names they call you in the paper. It s time the rest of us formed our own interest group. We re the taxpayers, and we re tired of funding every pet project and every bit of pork the legislature slips into the budget to buy a few more votes. We re tired of being told that this year, the state really is going to cut taxes, and control spending.