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...California to show that he's doing his job. And it's beginning to bear a little fruit: some polls show the number of voters who favor his recall slightly down, to about half. Still, you have to wonder why Davis, faced with budget shortfalls and an anti-tax electorate, is working so hard to hang on to the job in the first place...
...THOU SHALT NOT TAX...
...eyes of the Alabama Republican Party, Bob Riley is a sinner. He?s a conservative Republican and a born-again Baptist who had been proud of the fact that during his three terms in Congress he?d never voted for more taxes. Now, just six months after becoming Alabama?s governor, Riley is committing the ultimate GOP heresy: trying to ram through a $1.2 billion tax increase that would hit hardest the state?s wealthiest Republicans - who enthusiastically backed him during the campaign because he promised never to do such a thing. State GOP Chairman Marty Connors is beside himself...
...Alabama has an education system that ranks 49th in the country, prisons designed for 12,000 inmates that now have 27,000 crammed in them, and so few state troopers that after midnight only a half dozen patrol 67,500 miles of road. The state?s regressive tax system, whose burden now falls heaviest on low-income earners, is ?immoral,? he says. ?And taking care of the poor is the right thing...
...Riley is airing infomercials on his tax plan and has Democratic lawmakers backing him. But his own party and the Alabama Christian Coalition are fighting it. Alabamans, who have a deep-seated hatred for higher taxes, have a provision in their constitution, dating back to 1901, which requires any increase to be approved by the voters. So far, polls show Riley?s plan losing by 25 percentage points...