Income
Tax Revolt Stories on the Web
Web
sites from across the nation that reported on the Tennessee
tax revolt
- TermLimits.org
It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.
And right now the fat lady is tied up in surgery, getting
an operation on her larynx. Read more.
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TheAmericanProwler.com
(Part of American Spectator Magazine)
Tennessee Tax Tanks - The anti-income tax revolt
in Tennessee is over, at least for this legislative
session. Thanks to a coalition of dissenting politicians,
renegade talk radio hosts, an energized public, and
perhaps a Benevolent Deity, Tennessee remains one of
the few no-income tax states in America. Read
more.
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TheAmericanProwler.com
(Part of American Spectator Magazine)
Tennessee's Tea Party - Tennessee may be most
appreciated for country music and whiskey -- and, come
to think of it, despised for the same reasons -- but
the state is also notable for its politically correct
citizenry. Over the course of the past couple of years,
thousands of Tennesseans have taken to the streets to
stop a proposed state income tax. Read more.
- National
Review Magazine
Tennessee's
Commies - Peace can make for interesting bedfellows,
as citizens of Nashville and environs have recently
discovered. Indeed, the state's most revered and self-congratulatory
peace activists have been exposed, by talk radio, as
being deeply in bed with the Communist party.
Read more.
- Tennessee
Nurses Association
Now that the dust has settled from the Legislature's August
7 override of the no-new-taxes budget veto. So,
what really happened? Daytime talk radio hosts Phil Valentine
and Steve Gill can certainly take credit for the horn-honking
protestors to an income tax and the near riot at the Capitol.
Read more.
- OriginalIntent.org
Now comes the truly ugly part - One of the bill's opponent's,
state senator Marsha Blackburn, called radio talk-show
host Phil Valentine, and together they informed the public
of what was being done behind their backs. Valentine recommended
that concerned Citizens get to Nashville and make themselves
heard. Read more.
- SierraTimes.com
Tennessee Tax Revolt Update - Apparently thousands of
motorists feel the same way. Nashville Radio Personality
Phil Valentine told Sierra Times today that while he's
seen only about a hundred street protesters, there are
reported to be cars "numbering in the thousands" circling
Legislative Plaza. Read more.
- SierraTimes.com
Ten Truths About the Tennessee Tax Revolt
- Valentine was on the air (from a remote location south
of the city), and got a call from an aide to Sen. Marsha
Blackburn (R-Brentwood), informing him of a backroom deal
in process which might bring the income tax back into
consideration. Read more.
- NewsMax.com
Tennessee Radio Talker Sets Record Straight on Tax Protest
- Over the weekend Tennessee newspapers were filled with
reports of a near-riot at the State Capitol on Friday,
after two Nashville talk radio hosts exhorted their listeners
to march on the Legislature in protest over plans for
a new statewide income tax. Read more.
- Tennesseans
For Fair Taxation
Camp Tax Reform - The Rally the Lasted 9 Days! - Camp
Tax Reform is on the site where conservative talk radio
hosts Steve Gill and Phil Valentine use to broadcast their
morning shows during legislative sessions. Read
more.
- Insight
Magazine
Tennessee tax fight a warning
to others - According to conservative Nashville radio
talk-show host Phil Valentine, "TennCare is the monster
that has wrecked budget after budget. It consumes an ever-increasing
slice of the budget pie each year." Read more.
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Tennesseans For Fair Taxation
The Income Tax IS Constitutional - Even
anti-income tax talk radio host, Phil Valentine, admits
that an income tax would be found constitutional. In an
email to his followers dated June 29th, he wrote, "Understand
that our sources tell us that the State Supreme Court
is supposedly ready to rule that the income tax is constitutional."
Read more.
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