Category: Taxes
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Over-Theft
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If the cashier at Cub took my money then announced she had a surplus, I’d say she overcharged me. That’s a bad thing. If the State takes my money then announces it has a surplus, I’m supposed to be thrilled? In the private sector, a budget starts with a…
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Thanks, Tea Party!
Federal spending (as a percentage of US GDP) drops close to the historical average… The federal budget is shrinking as a percentage of gross domestic product, falling just below 20 percent in the third quarter of 2014. That’s down four points from its peak of 24 percent in 2011, according to market analysis firm Strategas’ survey…
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An Idea Whose Time Is Long Overdue
This is from a piece of constituent mail, reprinted on a Minnesota legislator’s facebook page: What do you think about replacing the word “free” to read “Taxpayer Funded” in all goverment paper and documents? Like instead of schools “Free” lunch program, it would read “Schools Taxpayer Funded Lunch Program”. It would be more truthful. I say…
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Saint Gruber
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This is why the cities of Brooklyn Park, Waite Park and Lake Park need to pay more taxes: so Saint Paul gets more LGA for an $8 million public library in the city’s wealthiest neighborhood, Highland Park. Meanwhile, my street still hasn’t been plowed or even sanded, and the…
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Unfair – The Movie
Last Saturday I interviewed Craig Bergman, producer of Unfair, a detailed documentary on the IRS’s systematic oppression of Americans. It’ll be showed one time, Tuesday, October 14, at a theater near you; here are the Minnesota showings; you can find one nearer you on the same page.
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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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Yet Another Area…
…where I’m years ahead of the rest of the country. For that matter, I’m already opposed to the next liberal idiot my district elects.
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Doakes Sunday: Findings Of Fact
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Another company leaving Minnesota for Wisconsin. This one is probably more about marketing to its customer base than taxes; still . . . . . Dayton -1, Walker +1. unlike the date and administrations job numbers, the number of “companies leaving Minnesota” is getting revised downward anytime soon. In…
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The Real Minimum Wage
Progressives, awash in worry about income inequality, will barber on and on over whether the minimum wage should be $10, or $11.50, or even a Seattle-sized $15/hour. Conservatives know that the real minimum wage is zero. “Diggity”, a new fast-food restaurant concept in Coon Rapids, gets a jump on McDonands, does away with the server:…
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Dear “Progressives”
We warned you. Oh, yes we did. “When you raise the taxes on the parts of our society that produce wealth, the wealth moves” That’s especially true when the taxes you’re raising make the producers of wealth – companies, in this case – less competitive in a global marketplace with other companies that produce wealth…
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Closing The Hatches
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Help thousands of customers into loans they can’t afford leading to foreclosure, bankruptcy, and Trillions in federal bailouts . . . yawn. Help a few people hide money from the tax collectors . . . $2.5 Billion in fines. Priorities You can’t take a house out of the country. Taxpayers…
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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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Paging Fran Tarkenton
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Dorsey lawyer’s Strib editorial on residency requirements for income tax purposes doesn’t make much sense. Not surprising, as it’s plainly self-interested on three fronts – keeping in good with the Tax Court and with Democrat politicians, as well as keeping her wealthy clients after they move out-of-state. First, she…
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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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Tax Cuts!
SCENE: Mitch BERG is picking up cat food at the grocery store. Avery LIBRELLE, carrying a case of kombucha, walks past, sees BERG, and stops. LIBRELLE: Hey, Merg! University Avenue is about to get a $1.4 Billion dollar tax cut! BERG: (Looking for a graceful way out) Um, what now? LIBRELLE: The Green Line light rail…
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Strib: “Oops – Sorry About All Those Unexpected Property Tax Hikes”
If there’s a “broken record” phrase in all of Minnesota conservative alt-media, it’s “the Star Tribune is carrying the water for the DFL”. It’s like saying “Boy, isn’t Lady Gaga weird”. It’s the baseline. It hardly needs to be said. As Strib observers and critics go, I’m more jaded and cynical than most, which is another way of…
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Chanting Points Memo: That Humongous Surplus!
How soon people forget… …well, no. How soon the DFL and its stenographers in the mainstream Minnesota media try to make them forget. The GOP-majority legislature in 2011 and 2012 bounced the state back from a (let’s take the Democrat-controlled bureaucracy at its word) $6 Billion-and-change deficit to an $800 million surplus, without raising taxes. …
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Snow Place Like Home
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: City of St. Paul takes responsibility for street plowing the way Obama’s IRS does – proclaim outrage, shuffle people around, make vague promises and hope the issue goes away. A city taxes residents to perform a few, basic duties: keep the peace, fight fires, provide safe drinking water, treat sewage and…
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We’re Number 47!
Minnesota has the 47th-best tax climate, according to the non-partisan [1] Tax Foundation. In none of the five major categories – corporate, individual income, sales, unemployment or property taxes – is Minnesota even in the top 60%. Keep up the good work, DFL! [1] – Hey, if the media calls “Common Cause” “non-partisan”… CORRECTION: 47th…
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Why Do Reps. Ellison, McCollum, Walz And Nolan Hate Veterans?
Four of Minnesota’s five House reps voted against funding veterans benefits during the shutdown (Collin Peterson did the right thing). Now, their explanation will be that the Democrats’ congressional leadership – Reid and Pelosi – want the whole budget passed, not a bunch of piecemeal mini-budgets – because that’s just not the way we do…
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We Keep Warning You
We warned the DFL. “Go ahead – raise cigarette taxes – the most regressive tax there is. Watch what happens. People will go out of their way to avoid paying the tax. Just you watch!” And the DFLers – and their camp followers in the local Sorosphere – assured the,selves “Naw! People won’t drive…
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Diplomatic
It’s gotta be tough to be the Strib Editorial Board. On the one hand, you are joined to the DFL at the hip. You run what is in effect the DFL house organ. On the other hand, you’re not only trying to run a business – you’re running a business in a dying industry and…
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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…