2009: The Year of Taxes (Townhall.com) December 29, 2009

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Paterson has released his first state budget and it’s full of higher taxes on everything from hospitals to insurance policies, plus creative new ones, like a $400 million obesity tax on sodas.

Meanwhile in California, Democratic legislators are attempting an end-run around the 2/3rds voting requirement for tax increases with a name-change, imposing instead billions of dollars of increased fees.  A tax by any other name was sweet enough for Republican Governor Schwarzenegger who apparently supports this sleight of hand.

And we haven’t even gotten to a new administration in Washington which long ago promised to use taxes to further redistribute wealth.

Welcome 2009, the year of taxes.