Support higher taxes as a Republican state senator and get rewarded with an admiring New York Times profile about your "courage." The article buys into the false dichotomy: "He has never been shy about discussing his preference for raising taxes over increasing public bond debt." It's as if the only choices are borrow or tax. What about spend less, or let the private sector rather than government handle it?
The Times's coverage of this is supplied by "the Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news organization," which, like so many non-profit (and therefore tax exempt) organizations, is only too happy to cheer on the politicians who support raising taxes on the people and organizations that do pay taxes.