The Star Tribune's Lori Sturdevant writes about the Budget Debate in today's paper. Not surprisingly, she sides with the Governor.
What is surprising is how she frames the issue as Jefferson vs. Hamilton, as town-hall democracy vs. aristocracy. Unfortunately, she gets who is on which team exactly backwards. And after invoking Jefferson and town meetings, she spends the remainder of her column faithfully transcribing the Governor's talking points about tax fairness, etc.
By all means, let's frame the debate in terms of bottom up democracy vs. top down aristocracy: but let us reconsider who is the aristocrat seeking to impose his noblesse oblige on us poor hapless taxpayers.
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