Dallas Morning News: On the governor’s race … (Censored Rebuttal added)

Yesterday early afternoon, I posted a comment in rebuttal to the following part of a longer article/op-ed that seemed to be highlighted Letters to the Editor of the Dallas Morning News. I took especial umbrage with the following observation because it was based on a direct fallacy — that Debra Medina was working with unsound math in her economic plan for Texas. My comment, of course, was not published by the moderator, most likely because I clearly pointed out proof of the fallacy. Here then is the particular letter in question, followed by my original and as yet unpublished comment (emphasis added and links intact and YouTube video embedded for easy viewing) :

Medina shines, despite her math

I was pleasantly surprised by Debra Medina’s performance in the first gubernatorial debate. She was feisty, persistent and, more important, stuck to constitutional grounding.
While I applaud her on her wistful hope of abolishing property taxes and letting a broad-based super-sized sales tax do it all, that isn’t realistic (yet). On that point, her math falls short of meeting the billions of dollars needed to meet Texas’ obligations.

If she can reformulate the math and make revenues and expenditures line up straight, she wins. At present, she is a lightweight, but if she comes up with sound fiscal numbers, she will effectively put a horseshoe in her proverbial verbal boxing glove and be a real heavyweight who can KO Kay Bailey Hutchison and Rick Perry on Election Day.

James A. Marples, Longview

Now for my rebuttal:

I find it interesting that people believe that it’s “Medina’s math” when she’s talking about eradicating insane and anti-Constitutional property taxes, when in fact “her math” is actually that of Dr. Arthur B. Laffer of Texas Public Policy Foundation.

You can see her discuss this very point in this interview from 2009 on WFAA:

So, don’t be so quick to assume that these ideas cannot work. New ideas can definitely not work if they are never implemented and if an anti-establishment candidate never gets a fair shake. I know, as most Texans recognize by now, that the powers-that-be will lie to us and mislead us. I won’t buy into more of the same out of fear. I know sound reasoning when I hear it and Debra Medina should be the next governor of Texas.