First of all please read this article. When I first heard this story I envisioned some crowd yelling and screaming and thowing things. When I dug a little deeper (and I think this is the best article of the ones I read) I found that this "unruly crowd" was simply cheering for what they liked and booing what they did not like. This is a public hearing, yet the public was thrown out because they (and I) vehemetly disagree with this new tax law.
Once again my friends, right here on your very doorstep. The government is blatently and visably ignoring you. I bet if you got one of those muckity mucks to talk off the reccord they would tell their side of the story as something similar to "Those peasants, don't have any respect. They are obviously too stupid to understand what we are trying to do. We are better than them!"
Cheering and booing people. That is enough to get hundreds kicked from a public hearing. A publc hearing! What is a public hearing, without a public to hear anything?
Let me back up for a bit. The hearing was about House File 807, a new tax bill which would take a way your ability to deduct your federal witholding from your state tax, umung other things; but that is the meat and potatos of it. What that means is if you make over 40k/year (if you do the math, but for some situations it would be over 125k/year) you would see a tax increase. Yay, just what we need in an economy going down the crap shoot.
Wether you are for or against the tax bill (that is for you to decide on your own), you have to agree this incident is just a slap in the face of the voting public. But you will see, the media is either going to downplay the event or it will exaggerate or twist the story to make those in the crowd seem like they were crazed crack heads who shouldn't be taken seriously. Remember, all they were doing, up untill they were all thrown out, was cheering and booing.
If the governmet thinks cheering is disruptive enough to eject an entire crowd from a public hearing, just wait till people really protest. If they keep this up, that is exactly what is going to happen. I'm not talking about the usual hippies that turn up to try to legalize pot, in numbers of a hundred or less, but masses of people organized by proper leaders.
Remember this event when its time to vote for your local officals again.
3 comments:
In a time of economic down turn this bill is ridiculous. For a poor man like myself it does no good for the feds to give us tax credits if the state is going to essentially take them. On the side not of the public hearing, I agree it doesnt sound like the crowd was that unruly. Sounds like a few of the muckity mucks didnt like being booed.
Well, Iowa does tax its citizens even more than New York. Sales tax, Consumer tax, now tax on our tax returns... Thanks Governer Chet... His pic does remind me of the pile of chet from Wierd Science.
When we protest, it will be labeled terrorism. We will literally loose all out rights, and they've already made it legal.
Let me know when/where. I'll be there ready to hold a picket sign, so long as I'm off work.
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