Fri
Aug 27 2010
12:53 pm
By: R. Neal
Is it just me, or is there something odd about the state Democratic Party ridiculing a former Republican governor who, more than eight years ago, had the temerity to suggest that there might be a more progressive way to generate state tax revenues than Tennessee's 10% sales-tax-based system?
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