[Hoot Gibson]

All taxation is theft. It's the fundamental core nature of that ideology. What if I said I didn't want to pay taxes for infrastructure because my roads are fine? Or because don't want to pay for the upkeep of Police Stations?

With the system that Bevin has into play, KY teachers will become less and less effective.

Taxes are necessary to support current government services. When politicians dip their hands into the pockets of future generations of taxpayers, it is theft. That is a fundamental difference between the way that conservatives view government and the way that liberals view it. Liberals show little concern for future generations, as long as current public sector employees are happy and continue to vote for liberal Democrats. That system is not sustainable over the long haul. Somebody will pay the price someday and that somebody will be paying for services that they will never receive.

At some point in the future, state government will be unable to meet the obligations that former office holders have made to retirees, whether it wants to or not. It is better to fix the system now than to continue saddling people who have not yet been born with ever growing public debt.