I like to be an informed member of the voting public. I like to read up on what candidates are proposing. I just read Rick Scott’s proposals and had some horrific vision of a statewide collapse. Just to recap what Rick Scott is proposing to do as Governor of Florida:
- Reduce government spending, as if we could cut anything more. We are laying off teachers, killing off maintenance of public parks, closing fire stations and police sub stations, considering farming out libraries to be run privately by the lowest bidders… the list goes on and on. Shit Rick, let’s just shut the whole thing down and declare anarchy! Everyone knows the role of government is to do absolutely as little as possible for anyone. We wouldn’t want to offer any services to the populace (the… “society”) for fear of being labeled a “socialist” do we?
- Reduce property taxes, you know, that thing that started Florida’s budget issues well before the recession (we had a head start getting used to it over the rest of the states.) It worked so damn well when Christ did it, so let’s just do it some more and really put our nuts in a vise! We don’t need the money anyhow, because we aren’t coughing up any jack to pay for anything useful for the citizenry anymore.
- Eliminate the Florida corporate income tax, which works nicely with giving residents a token decrease in property tax. Nobody could say he only cut taxes for businesses! Considering the fact that Florida is already one of the most attractive states tax wise for businesses, further reducing state income by 100% eliminating the taxes they receive is not only unnecessary but reckless. Does he plan on holding bake sales to raise money? Oh wait, I forgot, we won’t have any services, so who needs money? This one could get sticky. Rick Scott seems hell bent on convincing the Tea Baggers that he’s a populist but I’m not sure how he would answer a likely question they might propose of why he doesn’t want to nix 100% of personal property tax and give the smaller reduction to corporate taxes. I’m sure the answer will be something about trickle down economics, he’ll say 3 “Hail Reagans” and every one will be satisfied though.
- Removing corporate regulations… yeah, in the wake of Wall Street and banks raping the entire country (a direct result of Greenspan’s failed theory of a unregulated market) and oil giant BP ignoring what little safety regulations they did have to end up polluting the Gulf of Mexico, Rick Scott wants us to loosen up the reins even more. What’s that saying about doing the same thing and expecting a different result?
I’m not even going to go too much into his support for the completely racist and unconstitutional immigration law they have hatched in Arizona. How he thinks he can hold that opinion in Florida, a state that is populated by hispanic and hispanic-looking people (hell, even half the whites in Florida are tan enough to pass), and get elected is beyond me.
So yeah, Rick Scott is pretty much mentally insane, or maybe just a corporate whore, or maybe an experienced and seasoned douchebag. I’ll let him pick which we should know him as.
