The Herald-Leader editorial board takes Gas Station Governor Steve Beshear and the rest of Frankfort to task for refusing to do anything about tax reform/lying about reality:

Gov. Steve Beshear says this is a bad time to be talking about tax reform because it would mean higher taxes for some Kentuckians, and he doesn’t want to go there in the middle of a recession.

But what Beshear fails to consider in taking this stance is that the Kentuckians slammed hardest by the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression are the ones most desperately in need of the relief true tax reform would bring them — the low- and middle-income folks who bear a disproportionate share of the state and local tax burden.

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But a majority of our elected leaders have never summoned the political will to give Kentuckians a fairer tax code and to give the state a more stable, sustainable revenue base. Whether the state economy was humming along or crashing, they have always found some lame excuse for claiming it’s not the right time to do tax reform.

Shame on them for their lack of courage. And shame on us for sending them back to Frankfort again and again.

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And then click here to contact Steve Beshear, letting him know just what you think about the dumb, um, mess that rolled out of his office yesterday.