The Case Against Tax Hikes: Even in The Alibi

The fact that tax hikes are a bad idea right now is so self-evident that even Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino — one of the most left-wing members of the New Mexico Legislature — didn’t make an overt call for specific tax hikes in his recent column in The Alibi. Better still, I was not the only reader of The Alibi, an alternative weekly that is not exactly known for having many conservative or free market readers, who responded to Ortiz y Pino’s cloaked call for higher taxes.
My letter is the second one that appears on the paper’s letters page, but the one by Steve Davis makes many of the same points I do.