Earlier, colleague Tony Messenger discussed the dueling economic barbs in the governor’s race. Here’s the Jay Nixon ad he was talking about:
Lower taxes for seniors? So in Nixon’s world, the folks who have a paid off house and nobody to support but themselves get a tax break, and those of us who are busting our butt to make a house payment and raise kids get nothing. Thanks, Jay.
Missouri still has some of the lowest gas and sales taxes of any state.
If he’s really serious about cutting taxes that make a difference, he could start by talking about nixing the state income tax. That will make the biggest difference to most Missourians and deflate that pesky unemployment rate.
NIck - Let’s see, you support Bush’s tax cuts for the rich, who really don’t need the extra money, but you’re against tax cuts for the elderly living on a small fixed income. What a humanitarian and what a posterchild for the Republican Party.
Let’s not forget that Nick’s friends in the General Assembly, including the GOP candidate for Attorney General (Senator Gibbons), have been falling all over themselves for the last 4 years pandering to the blue-haired “homesteaders” by giving them property tax rebates to offset property value increases thereby redistributing the tax burden to hit working, child-rearing folks harder. Now he’s criticizing Jay Nixon for saying he’ll do the same thing? It’s only sound tax policy when the GOP does it?
Nick- you blow me away. Let slook at how good the economy is going right now. Fannie Maw bail out. Freddie Mac bail out. Lehman Brothers filing Banruptcy. Jobs leaving the state like lemmings off a cliff. Just today HP announces laying off 24,500 people. Clinton era increase 22 million jobs - Bush era % million jobsBut -boy-the economy is doing great. I am all for partianship but when it comes to this-WAKE UP!! It is time to do something different.
Freddie and Fannie are to Government created companies. They failed on under the watchful eye of Congress. Last I checked, there were a fair amount of each party in Congress that were asleep at that wheel. Maybe they were busy texting.
This is a very poorly produced ad. If that’s all Nixon’s got he’s done for.
Surely VanEaton and Hancock can counter this garbage.
Right?
Jake Wagman covers City Hall for the Post-Dispatch
I sure hope the actual quality of the ad is better than what you have above. Looks like whoever is recording these needs to invest in a better computer.