Arizona Governor Jan Brewer says, very simply, “We don’t like taxes. We don’t like increase in taxes.”
However, this gets spun by Aviva Shen of ThinkProgress as “Tea Party Governor Calls For GOP To Compromise On Taxes To Avert Sequester Cuts”.
Here’s the full transcript:
MAJOR GARRETT (HOST): Is it a greater danger for you to deal with these cuts or would it be a greater danger to the economy for the Republicans to give in on raising taxes? Which would you like to see?
BREWER: You don’t give me very good choices…As a governor from a western state, it is difficult for me to be honest and say ok, I know all the answers, because I don’t have all the inside baseball games, and for me to sit here and say I know every detail of what they’re dealing with there… We don’t like taxes. We don’t like increase in taxes. But we know we have to be pragmatic. We know there has to be some kind of compromise, but dang it, they need to get the job done. they don’t need to leave the public out their hanging.
Her call to reinforce the fact that taxes should not be increased, that Congress needs to get the job done, and that she is not as informed as Congress about negotiations, somehow gets turned into her pleading with Congress to not raise taxes and cut off funds for her state.
Only in Bizarro world do these headlines make sense.
