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April 15, 2005
Counting Democracy ~ April's the Cruelest Month
Another Daily Bailout Feature:
Tax Day 2005. Extensions will be mailed. Payments will be sent. Revenue will be lost. In this hazardous season in civics when procrastinators and evaders are made visible, it is disingenuous of my Republican friends to balk at paying their share, after listening to them cheer on the war in Iraq for two years, a war that has cost our taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.
As if a prelude of things to come, Chattanooga voted in a populist mayor on tax week. With populism striking hot against a local plutocracy, Ron Littlefield generated such an earthquake in this quiet city that even I was astonished. I was there reporting on his victory at the Littlefield headquarters, a blue-collar warehouse on 11th. From where was this populist spirit rising?
Posted by wjbailes at April 15, 2005 12:09 PM
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