Why Debra Medina is Rising in Texas Governor’s Race--Scores Big in Interview

Here is an interview that shows clearly the straight talk that is attracting a rapidly growing number of people to Debra Medina’s campaign for Governor of Texas.  It was taped January 21, 2010 and broadcast the day of the second ‘Republican debate on January 29, 2010.  Shortly afterward, she surged to 16% in the Rasmussen Poll on 2/1/10, as noted in a previous post.

When asked by the Liberal host, David Jones:

"Do we still not need to provide food stamps to people who have no income.  Do we still not need to provide Medicaid for people—?"

Medina replies incisively:

We never needed to do that.  That is not the government's role.  When people hurt, the community and the church, neighbors take care of neighbors.  That's the healthy society.  That's the healthy, prosperous and free society.  And, where we have gone awry as a state is to say no, it's the state's job.  The very thing that people are fearful of with the nationalization of health care has already happened here in Texas.  There is not an audience I speak to where I say, “Is there anybody in this room who thinks health care is the number one job of the State of Texas?” Nobody raises their hand, and yet that's where we spend the most of our state resources is on delivering health care.  That's not the job of the state government [Emphasis added].

Later in the interview, she holds forth regarding her proposal to abolish the property tax in Texas.

All tax is a burden on the economy.  All tax is a burden on people.  All taxes are regressive.  The sales tax is the least burdensome, the least regressive of all of the taxes, especially the way we have structured it here in Texas to not apply the tax to food and medicine."

She indicated that a study had shown that estimates of the needed sales tax level would be between 6.1 to 15%, whereas the current tax is 6.25%.  And, there would be no more tax on personal property!  Given that many states have personal income, property, and sales taxes that total to more than 15%, this sounds like an awesome proposal to me for putting government back in the Constitutional box in which it belongs.

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