Rep. Noel Frame is the Legislature’s progressive revenue queen. As someone who just led a five-year-long, bipartisan effort to study ways to completely restructure our state’s regressive tax code, she knows more about the issue than anyone else. Those corporate drones in the Senate will need her leadership in this discussion if we’re to make this place even just a little fairer any time soon.
Meanwhile, her challenger, Kate Martin, who is running as a Democrat for reasons we do not understand, scoffs at the implication that our tax structure is messed up at all. That kind of thinking only makes sense if you believe that forcing poor people to pay a much larger share of their income on taxes than rich people isn’t messed up.
