Kitty Barf 12: Show Kitty the Money

This column was spawned by a realization of how much my children’s cat and the Republican Party of Arkansas (RPA) are alike.  To know why it’s called Kitty Barf, you can begin reading here. 

In today’s column, we talk about a pet project of one of the RPA’s most vocal political hacks.  Near and dear to the heart of David Ray is the impact of direct democracy to the state fisc.  Someone, says Ray, should be telling the peasants how much all this direct democracy is going to cost the State.

Ignore that we have an income tax.  You know that tax dreamed up by the democrats to redistribute wealth from the hard-working people of Arkansas to the State and its social programs of government funded charity.  Pretend like we don’t have a $700 million budget surplus from the last tax year alone. 

Nope.  In the name of cost cutting fiscal conversative values, the “Republicans” want you, peasant voter, to know how much it is going to cost to implement your ideas.  To achieve this, Ray has run and passed a bill off the house floor that will require a fiscal impact statement as a part of every ballot measure.

In the words of Cuba Gooding, Jr.’s, character Rod Tidwell from the 1996 movie Jerry McGuire, “show kitty the money.”

The Republicans have lost sight of the big picture.  Their legislative bills create taxes which yields a budget surplus year-after-year in the hundreds of millions.  In other words, they overtax the citizenry time and time again.  However, they don’t want us to have any say in how we spend our own money?  And they damn sure don’t want to give any of it back or even seriously consider stopping the collection of excessive tax revenue.

Now, the Republicans are going to spend my tax dollars to try and convince me at the polls that my ideas and those of my fellow citizens are too expensive to implement.

Hey Kitty, here is a thought—how about you leave the thinking to the people who are good at it.

Clinton W. Lancaster

Attorney. America First. Sued Hunter Biden for child support. Represented President Trump in the 2020 Wisconsin election challenge. Former attorney for the Wisconsin Special Counsel. An official “Tough Cookie” per President Trump.