Commonwealth Dumb-cus

For those of you that may not know, a group of Republicans calling themselves the Commonwealth Caucus have proposed a plan to get rid of your property taxes. Only problem is, to pay for this, they intend to raise a boat-load of other taxes, namely sales tax. What does this do? It takes money away from the janitor to pay for the building owners' tax break. What is the logic here? No clue. How is this fair? Well, it's not. The Secretary of Revenue along with most state Democrats and a good chunk of state Republicans have said as much. Is this plan just to get a couple of state legislators re-elected? I'm not so sure. It's been hanging around for more than a year. These guys really think that this is possible. They think it's fair and that it's not just to screw a lot of poor people and reward a bunch of rich people. This is yet another example of Republicans believing the poorest among us should fend for themselves. Is this tough love to them? Is it survival of the biggest wallets? Do they really think they're doing a good thing? I guess we'll have to make them answer these questions in November.