Mitch's shameful legacy

Today's Courier-Journal chastises Mitch McConnell for his irresponsibility:

Why do so many Kentucky politicians -- especially Republicans -- shun taxes like some combination of Plague, Ebola and Necrotizing Fasciitis? Because it's the easy way to please voters, and because the state's most powerful pol, Mitch McConnell, has advised them to do it.

...Remember last year's weeks of McConnell campaign ads lambasting Bruce Lunsford for once having pushed (as a gubernatorial staffer) a gas tax system tied to the price at the pump -- a formula that had raised the tax just over 12 cents in the ensuing 28 years?

When the McConnell biography is written, it should devote a chapter to his singular achievement -- perfecting an anti-tax culture that dooms Kentucky to remain a backward state.