Professor Susan Pace Hamill recently told AL.com she sees a parallel between former Alabama Gov. Benjamin Meek Miller and Gov. Robert Bentley.
Both were conservatives who promised no new taxes, and both presided over fiscal crises.
“He (Miller) was not a progressive governor at all. He was kind of like what Gov. Bentley’s going through,” Hamill said. “Gov. Bentley is experiencing in a sort of metaphorical way what Gov. Miller experienced in the ’30s.”
For more, read “Alabama’s Income Tax Hits Poor Harder Than Most, But It Wasn’t Always So.”
