Debra Medina, RN, is running for Governor of Texas

[tejas-nurse]

Debra Medina, RN, is running for Governor of Texas.

I'd say vote for her, even though one of the major candidates is more likely to win, if only to make them work harder.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6848243.html

[caliotter3]

When I first saw the title to this thread my first thought was "another out of work nurse gets innovative in her job hunt".

[MBsGirl]

She's got my vote. My only complaint is that we can't clone her, and replace the Pres, VP, and all of Congress with her!

[student005]

She has my vote!!! Wow... she wants to eliminate property taxes-- AND just think of having an RN as governor to advocate for all of us in the healthcare field!

[CyclicalEvents]

She has my vote!!! Wow... she wants to eliminate property taxes-- AND just think of having an RN as governor to advocate for all of us in the healthcare field!

Considering property taxes pay for the public school systems in Texas, I'd be curious as to how she'd keep the schools running.

[Edit] Oh dear, increase the sales tax. Shame that hurts the poor/working class more.

"She believes landowners along the Texas-Mexico border have the right to arm themselves against illegal immigrants coming across the Rio Grande."

=| She's a psychopath.

[student005]

Considering property taxes pay for the public school systems in Texas, I'd be curious as to how she'd keep the schools running.

[Edit] Oh dear, increase the sales tax. Shame that hurts the poor/working class more.

This is from the Q&A on the website of Debra Medina, RN:

How are middle and low-income families helped by expanding the sales tax - isn't that a much more regressive tax than the property tax?

First, we would ensure that items such groceries, medicines, basic health care and other basic needs continue to be exempt from the sales tax. It's the disproportionate percentage of such families' incomes spent on such items that makes the sales tax regressive, and we would actually work to expand this exemption to make sure that those individuals and families are not disproportionately impacted by reform. Second, it's not at all clear that the property tax is in fact less regressive. Although the recent Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy study showed the distribution of the Texas property tax burden to be fairly neutral across income groups, this study ignores the "invisible" burden borne by renters for their landlords' property taxes, and the "stealth" property tax passed by Texas businesses to their customers in the form of higher prices. Once those factors are taken into account, and once we realize the dramatic expansion of opportunities for Texas workers to earn a decent living and to feed, clothe and shelter their families, we believe that middle and low income earners will be foremost among this reform's beneficiaries.

[OutlawNurse86, BSN, RN]

"A fierce opponent of federal gun laws, she keeps a Springfield 9mm in a zippered case in her car"

She's a conservative and a supporter of 2nd Amendment rights.... MY GOD! .... I think I'm in love!....Move over Sarah Palin....