Marta Mossburg: Tone deaf on taxes

Published August 13, 2009 4:00am ET



Enough is enough. Before the dust settles on the $1.3 billion extra dollar bills flowing to the state treasury from tax increases foisted on taxpayers in 2007, lawmakers and others are grumbling for more.

Among the proposals are squeaking out more funds from businesses recently hit with a corporate income tax hike and extending the sales tax to items purchased on the Internet. The U.S. Constitution prohibits the latter proposal. But the rule of law is but a quaint anachronism to crusaders intent on safeguarding their slice of the government pie.

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