Here are the tax videos from this morning

Since you (probably) couldn’t be there, I’m posting the videos from this morning — both the House Health and Human Services Appropriations Committee and the subsequent Republican caucus rebuttal to the tax vote — here.

The committee — particularly the discussion before the vote — is interesting stuff because many of the lawmakers on the committee take a moment to describe the philosophy behind their vote. Enjoy.

On the subject of taxes, I mentioned in an earlier post that Rep. Gary Alexander didn’t think people would die if a tax wasn’t passed but, he said, he did believe people would lose their jobs. Joe Turner from The News Tribune has a mathematical explanation of that here.