They'll cut programs for the poor, children, health services and more, but won't touch the rich...

Conservationists, sportsmen, firefighters, teachers, correctional officers and others gathered for a pair of rallies on the Capitol’s north lawn and demanded that Republicans focus more on creating jobs and less on ramming through controversial bills and budget cuts aimed at slashing government employees and rolling back bedrock environmental laws.

Montana Republicans are pushing:

– A bill by State Sen. Chas Vincent (R-MT) to gut the Montana Environmental Policy Act because, Vincent says, it’s what “venture capitalists” need.

– A bill by State Rep. Scott Reichner (R-MT) to slash workers’ compensation insurance because “businesses are being crushed.”

– A bill by State Rep. Walter McNutt (R-MT) to close the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls.

– A bill by State Sen. Jason Priest (R-MT) to prevent the establishment of a state health insurance exchange.

– Bills by State Rep. Joe Read (R-MT) to declare global warming “natural” and “beneficial,” and to prevent the EPA from enforcing climate pollution rules.

– Bills to slash health programs like vaccination, water safety, anti-smoking, child nutrition, and the Montana Healthy Kids health insurance program for children.

– A $32 million cut to higher education in the state.

Meanwhile, Republicans are pushing bills to cut or eliminate taxes on corporations.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/22/montanans-protest-tea-party/

They aren't about to do anything to make their owners uncomfortable.

K&R

in which corporations are people too, it's ONLY fair that their "needs" are now taken into account. Seeing that they're a little late to the party, it makes sense that they need to made to feel "welcome".

:sarcasm:

Can you believe this?

A news editor on right wing radio here in Chicago actually made that astounding statement this week.

Governor Quinn is considering switching from a flat tax to progressive tax here in Illinois

Even one of his conservative panelists questioned this saying "surely a flat tax on the rich and the poor is not fair to someone making say, $10,000.00 a year as opposed to someone to ten million."