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The National Governors Association is meeting this week and our clickable yearbook of 22 governors is assigning honors to some and detention to others for the tax policies they pushed in 2011 and 2012.
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Jan Brewer (R-AZ) |
Jerry Brown (D-CA) |
Sam Brownback (R-KS) |
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Most Likely to Side with Wealthy Investors |
Best at Playing a Bad Political Hand |
Most Likely to Bankrupt His State |
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Lincoln Chafee (I-RI) |
Chris Christie (R-NJ) |
Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) |
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A+ For Effort at Sales Tax Reform |
Fiscal Drama Queen |
Best Reversal on Millionaires Tax |
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Mark Dayton (D-MN) |
Mary Fallin (R-OK) |
John Kasich (R-OH) |
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Most Willing to Stand Up to Legislature |
Biggest Loser at Cutting Income Taxes |
Fracking Tax Squanderer |
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Paul LePage (R-ME) |
John Lynch (D-NH) |
Dan Malloy (D-CT) |
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Reverse Robin Hood Award |
Smartest Veto of the Year |
Most Likely to Make Rich to Pay Fair Share |
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Martin O’Malley (D-MD) |
Butch Otter (R-ID) |
Deval Patrick (D-MA) |
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Defender of Public Services |
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Beverly Perdue (D-NC) |
Rick Perry (R-TX) |
Pat Quinn (D-IL) |
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Brian Sandoval (R-NV) |
Rick Scott (R-FL) |
Rick Snyder (R-MI) |
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| Most Likely to Defy Grover’s Tax Pledge |
Corporate Tax Giveaway King |
Biggest Tax Hiker on the Poor and Elderly |
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Scott Walker (R-WI) |
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| Biggest Bully |
