Category: Dayton Dustbowl
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Why Does The DFL Hate Poor People?
Governor Dayton is set to veto a tax cut bill that would have cut taxes to the lowest income brackets in Minnesota – people whose tax burden is in fact disproportionally higher than higher-income Minnesotans, counting federal, state, local and various consumption taxes. Naturally, it’s about feeding the Educational Industrial Complex: Gov. Mark Dayton is…
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The Dayton Doctrine: Ghost Of Tax Day Future
Connecticut – a state that has done everything the Minnesota DFL wants to do to the Minnesota economy, but put it on a turbocharger – is about to pay the proverbial piper; Aetna Insurance is pondering leaving Connecticut and its confiscatory taxes behind. Governor Malloy, after an entire administration spent pilfering the coffers of Connecticut…
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Dodging The Point
Ever since Governor Dayton passed one of the highest taxes in the nation on people earning over about $150,000 a year, conservatives have been predicting an exodus of the productive class. The Minnesota left is doing cartwheels over “data” showing it’s not happened… …sort of. I add emphasis: The ranks of the very rich are…
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Eating The Seed Corn
Minnesota DFLers are romping and frolicking in money from the “surplus” – a misnomer referring to the billion dollars overtaxed from Minnesota’s productive class. But more and more, the evidence shows that the “surplus” is a false positive – and that Minnesota’s productive class is choosing greener, lower-tax pastures: Minnesota, on net, lost $1 billion…
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Our Vapid Overlords
Let’s flash back: 2012: Heading for what looks like a tough mid-term, Governor Messinger Dayton promises he’ll lower property taxes for “middle class Minnesotans”… …many of whom seem blissfully, gullibly unaware that the state government has absolutely nothing to do with property taxes, which are levied by county commissions and school districts. Oh, the state…
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A Bargain At Half The Price!
I was listening to Jack Tomczak talking with AFSCME’s Javier Morillo on the lesser talk station yesterday, about the Dayton pay raises. Morillo said, out of one corner of his mouth, that there is no way you could find people in the private sector who deal with headcounts and budgets like these administrators do, at…
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Meet The New Huckster, Same As The Old Huckster
During last week’s gubernatorial debate in Duluth, Governor Dayton referred to the Iron Range has having been victimized by “hucksters” with hare-brained economic development schemes to try to compensate for the crash of the mining industry. Yesterday on their show blog, Jack and Ben (who, notwithstanding working for the lesser talk station, have been on…
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More Of That “Blowing Sunshine Up Minnesota’s Skirt” Thing…
I read yesterday’s headlines about the new, Preferred-One-Free MNSure rates, and got ready to write. Then, I got an email from a friend who works in the Healthcare industry, which explains it much better: The headlines on MNSure saying premiums rose only 4.5%. This reminds me of an old story. A friend of mine was flying…
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For Those Tired Of That “Smoke Up Their Skirt” Feeling.
Daytonomics – a noun, referring to economic conditions that look rosy on the surface, but worse and worse the more one examines them. See also: “Potemkin”. The DFL is running the bulk of their state campaigns – the Legislature, the Constitutional Officers and Governor – on the notion that two years of Daytonomics have left…
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Throwback Thursday
Governor Dayton says “the buck stops” with him in re MNSure: — Gov. Mark Dayton [said] that he ultimately feels responsible for the success or failure of [MNSure]. Dayton apologized for problems Minnesotans are having on the state’s health care exchange. The governor is promising to fix multiple website problems, as soon as possible. “I apologize…
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Chanting Points Memo: The Dayton Economy Just Keeps Getting Better And Better!
Just keep repeating it to yourself, DFLers; the Dayton economy is awesome! The Dayton economy is awesome! The Dayton economy is awesome! Housing starts are off 15 percent in August (the full story appeared on MPR last night – but naturally isn’t available online today): Confidence in the local homebuilding market took a hit in…
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All That DFL Happy Talk About The Economy…
…is baked wind. Minnesota lost 4,200 jobs in July, and is adding them at an anemic pace year-to-date: State officials said Thursday that Minnesota employers shed a seasonally adjusted 4,200 jobs in July. Meanwhile, they also revised June’s numbers downward by 3,600 jobs. That means that, year-to-date, Minnesota has added a meager 2,900 jobs, or about…
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Slump
Amid all the DFL’s bragging about the economy – which Bill Glahn dispensed with earlier this week – let’s note that for the fifth straight month, tax receipts are off. And not by just a little bit (emphasis added): Minnesota’s tax collections for July have come in $69 million below expectations. The Department of Minnesota…
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Breaking Some Eggs
I had a great pleasure of meeting seven or eight of my closest friends at the River Oasis Café in Stillwater Saturday morning. We talked about the cafe last week; they aroused the ire of the entire Minnesota Left – few of whom would ever seem to have been at the River Oasis – by…
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It’s The Minnesota Way!
So you want to effect some change in Minnesota politics? Perhaps right a wrong that you see? What’s the best way to do it? Spend years mustering supporters and changing public opinion? Like the Tea Party? Or sit in tents out on the sidewalk, warmed only by relentless NPR coverage, like “Occupy?” Nonsense. Just have…
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“Unexpected”
For the fourth straight month, Minnesota’s revenues came in below forecast – and the rate of the shortfalls is accelerating. That is according to Minnesota Management and Budget, which is nominally non-partisan (but whose leadership depends on Mark Dayton for their employment, and whose rank and file work for AFSCME). Exactly as fiscal conservatives said…
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Democrat Fatcat Largesse
Think you’re done paying for football? Hah. Dream on, peasant ripe-sucks. Helga Braid Nation is doing cartwheels that “we” will be hosting a Super Bowl in 2018 at “our” stadium. And Mark Dayton is going to soak up whatever sunlight the event gives him among the “Happy To Have Someone Else Pay For My Bread…
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Be Thankful, Peasants
Two billion in new taxes. A 1.2 billion dollar surplus (thanks, GOP majority from 2011-2012!), which means “unexpected” money collected in taxes, and is money that is lost from the economy. That’s a total of $3.2 billion extra dollars sucked out of the Minnesota economy – about $600 for every man, woman and child in the state,…
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I’m Jumpin’ NARN Flash, It’s A Gas, Gas, Gas…
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism, as the Twin Cities media’s sole source of honesty! I’m in the studio today from 1-3. I’ll have Senator Roger Chamberlain on, regarding the dueling Bullying Bills. Then, we’ll talk with Kim Crockett about the “Minnesota Exodus”,…
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NARN Tomorrow
It’s gonna be a huge show tomorrow on the Northern Alliance Radio Network. First, I’ll be interviewing Senator Roger Chamberlain about the dueling bullying bills, and why it’s an important battle even if you don’t have kids in the public school system. Then, I’ll be talking with Kim Crockett about the number of companies leaving Minnesota…
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What Minnesota Deserves
Knowing that the media will never allow it to amount to anything serious, Governor Dayton “takes responsibility” for the MNSure fiasco: Dayton reacted Thursday to a report from Optum, a unit of Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group. The report found MNsure’s problems are widespread and cannot be solved by the March 31 federal deadline for most people…
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Level To Off
Minnesota tax revenue is off since July. After a couple of years of faster-than-expected receipts – read “the economy was growing faster than had been predicted”, largely due to GOP economic policies – things are flat to a little slow. And if you’re a conservative, you already know why “flat” is as good as it’s…
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Open Letter To Alliance For A “Better” Minnesota”
To: Carrie Lucking, “Executive Director”, Alliance for a Better Minnesota From: Mitch Berg, uppity peasant Re: Chain Of Command Ms. Lucking, The “Special Session” to deal with disaster relief teed up a few hours ago. Just a hint; it might behoove you to copy your audioanimatronic marionette “Governor” Dayton on any legislation that gets proposed,…
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Scope Creeps
As Gary Gross notes, the DFL seems at the very least to be floating as a trial balloon that they’re doubling down on the warehouse tax. It’s outside the scope Governor Dayton Messinger wanted for the special session. I’m torn on this one. On the one hand, I think that if the warehouse tax goes…
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We Warned You. Oh, Yes, We Did.
2011: As the GOP majority began working to try to tame Minnesota’s government monkey, the DFL prattled “the GOP is raising property taxes!”. It was baked monkey doodle, of course. The GOP re-focused “Local Government Aid” toward its original mission, helping poor outstate communities, as opposed to subsidizing the urban DFL. But in 2012, it…