The media also are claiming Americans don't care much about the tax issue anymore and are not in the mood for tax cuts. But the evidence keeps rolling in that people do care a lot about trimming their tax bills - or at least not allowing them to grow larger. Last month Californians beat back a ballot measure funded by organized labor, teachers unions, and big business to roll back the famous Proposition 13 property tax relief measure. But Holmes had it wrong. Taxes are really the price we pay for tolerating a swollen, unproductive federal government.
Taxes are the fuel that drive big government.
That's why they are so fervently trying to convince us what a good deal we are getting. This article appeared in the Washington Times, April 17, 2000.