
GOP legislators voting for taxes? It’s not likely to happen again anytime soon
LA TimesThe simplest messages in politics are usually the most powerful, with a politician on the wrong side of that simplicity scrambling to explain the unexplainable. There’s now an asterisk after the word ‘taxes.’” Fleischman spent several weeks writing columns urging Republican legislators to reject the healthcare tax, and argues that helping Democrats pass new taxes won’t stop the bleeding in the GOP’s size of the California electorate. “If you don’t have a definition,” Fleischman said, “you can’t build a base.” Assembly Republican leader Chad Mayes rejected any suggestion that Monday’s bipartisan tax vote sends the wrong message about his party’s core values. “The debate is, what’s the way to properly fund government?” That mirrors the message of Republican lawmakers who voted for the 2009 state budget tax hike. “For Republican orthodoxy, there’s a reflex reaction to oppose all tax increases.” But the unsettled political debate is whether current voters will reward or punish GOP politicians who eschew a firm tax pledge.
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