Conservative Insurgency
Phyllis Schlafly
May 02, 2006

A new conservative uprising is stirring and no one should be surprised. The Republican Establishment has been drifting leftward, and a backlash had to come against the Big Government spenders in legislatures and against supremacist judges who order the spending.

Witness the conservative complaints against the Texas Republican leadership for trying to railroad through, in a special legislative session, a brand new tax on businesses. This would impose $3 billion in new taxes on the most productive workers in Texas.

Is this justified by a shortfall in the budget? No; Texas has a budget surplus of over $8 billion this year and business is booming.

Contrast that with California, which runs annual multibillion-dollar budget deficits and has a bond rating that ranks as low as hurricane-damaged Louisiana. The major difference is income taxes; California has the highest effective top rate (factoring in lack of deductions), while Texas has no personal or business income tax. the rest