STATE ISSUES MORE COMPLEX THAN DINO THINKS

Coming online today, I got a glimpse of a campaign banner on my homepage which Rossi declared he would:

• Lower Taxes
• Reduce the Deficit
• Fix Our Transportation Problem
  

Trouble is, President Bush also promised a lot of things when he ran for office in 2000 and again in 2004.

He lowered taxes for the rich, but increased it across the board for everyone else. (How else is he planning on paying for his nearly $10 trillion dollar spending spree so far? The rich certainly won't be picking up Junior's tab.)

As a consequence, the lack of higher tax revenues by our government has forced it to spend more than it could take in on a yearly basis--raising the deficit by leaps and bounds.

How does Rossi plan on reducing a state deficit that's in part due to the souring economy and falling state tax revenue? Does he plan on making it all "go away" through some magic hat trick, or will he just tell us that "deficits don't matter"--and spend away like Bush did these last 8 years?

Our transportation problem here at home is simply another symptom to a much larger truth that we badly need to revamp our national transportation grid to the tune of $1.5 trillion dollars.

The fact that we haven't gotten any further (or anywhere in some cases) points to the complexity of the issue overall--and requires time to iron out.

Something that Dino hasn't quite caught onto just yet.

Schuyler Thorpe

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