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The Dayton Dustbowl: Just A Little Compromise

“Compromise”.

That’s what the Dayton Administration says it wants (when it’s not calling the GOP “extremists” – which is kind of funny, “extremists” getting the majority of the vote last November, but I digress).

Of course, the GOP did compromise; it hiked the budget, adding the money from the upgraded February revenue forecast to the budget, rather than leaving it in the economy where it might have done some good.  That’s all the compromise the GOP needs to do.

Dayton – or, more accurately, “Alliance for a Better Minnesota”, the attack PAC funded entirely by Dayton, his family, his friends, and the unions who are renting him until 2014 with an option ’til 2018 – are doing their best to cow Minnesotans into believing “cutting government” means “attacking the middle class”.

Dayton and his minions are lying, of course.

Here’s how it really works:

2011:  “Compromises” with the MNGOP to lower a 22% increase down to something a little less immediately catastrophic.  Somehow, he bullies the GOP into acquiescing.

2012:  Minnesota’s economy falters, as small-business hiring flags.  “It’s because of the GOP budget thefts!”, every single media outlet and DFL blog (pardon the redundancy) opines.  Disgusted by the GOP’s budget cave-in, swing voters stay home in droves, cutting the GOP’s majority in the Legislature.

2013: Emboldened by his “success” in cowing Minnesotans into taking a tax hit and pinning it, putatively, on “the rich”, Dayton proposes another “my way or the highway” budget, with another 20% increase to over $40 billion, to “pay Minnesota back for what the extremists stole”.  To pay for this, “the Rich” are redefined as anyone with an Adjusted Gross Income of over $90,000.

2014: Minnesota’s economy falls still further, as mid-sized businesses flee the state in accelerating numbers.   Dayton, having vetoed Voter Id, wins re-election by a 5 million to 1 million margin.

2015: Dayton’s budget rockets up another 20%, to $48 billion; “you must be happy to pay for a bigger Minnesota”, he mumbles, as he notes that “the rich” are now any Minnesotan with an adjusted gross income of over $60,000.

And so on.

Pass the word to your neighbors; all they have is fear.

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20 responses to “The Dayton Dustbowl: Just A Little Compromise”

  1. Troy Avatar
    Troy

    Addressing the states spending problem by digging deeper into citizens pockets? They certainly don’t have logic on their side.

  2. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Unfortunately, Troy, too many left wing morons like Tim and Doggy believe that spew! The smart Dems figured out long ago that a tax on the rich is just libturd speak for raising everyone’s taxes!

    I wish I had money stashed in SD so that I could launch my new organization “Alliance Against the Alliance for a Better Minnesota” and run attack ads against Dipshit Dayton.

  3. Dog Gone Avatar
    Dog Gone

    Not at all bosshoss; I actually tracked the increase in the income and earnings of the wealthy that Dayton propses to tax, and depending on which group you look at, their incomes increased anywhere from 11% to 23%, while the rest of us remained comparatively static. His proposal of a very small percentage of additional income tax is a drop in the bucket.

    Whereas those of you who believe the mantra that spending cuts are the only side of the deficit that we should look at are idiots and fools.

    We wouldn’t be in this mess had the Bush tax cuts never been inacted; there is no solution that fails to address the problems on the revenue side that will adequately and fairly solve the current problems. More tax cuts, or even the tax cuts made recently, are not the solution. They are the problem and they need to be undone, and tax loopholes need to be closed and subsidies ended.
    http://penigma.blogspot.com/2011/05/minnesota-budget-crisis-and-federal.html#more

  4. Ben Avatar
    Ben

    If Dayton vetoes Voter ID can’t we just put it on the 2012 ballot?

  5. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    I actually tracked the increase in the income and earnings of the wealthy that Dayton propses…

    Read: Doggone has read what the Huffington Post and Dailiy Kos has put forth, and accpeted it as gospel without further comment.

  6. Kermit Avatar
    Kermit

    His proposal of a very small percentage of additional income tax is a drop in the bucket.
    Which translates to “It will not do squat to alleviate a $5 billion deficit”.

    We wouldn’t be in this mess had the Bush tax cuts never been inacted
    Oh, I would love to see the FACT CHECK that backs up this assertion. I will not hold my breath, as Doggie tucks her tail between her legs and flees this latest bullshit comment.

  7. Ben Avatar
    Ben

    Now now, lets let Doggie live in her little fantasy world. Never let the facts get in the way of a good political movement

  8. Ben Avatar
    Ben

    DG, and how about all that money that Dayton has hiding in SD?

  9. Ben Avatar
    Ben

    They are the problem and they need to be undone, and tax loopholes need to be closed and subsidies ended.

    Wait, is DG actually IN FAVOR of a flat tax/fair tax/consumption tax?!?! ALert the MEDIA!

  10. jimf Avatar
    jimf

    DogGone- “…depending on which group you want to look at, their (the rich) incomes increased anywhere from 11% to 23%…..” And you say that like it’s a bad thing. Remember, “the rich” pay for most of your pet programs. So, if their pay goes up anywhere from 11% to 23%, doesn’t it follow that the tax they owe the state would go up a coresponding amount? It works out to be the same thing as a tax increase, right? Which is what you wanted in the first place. Only in the “mind” of a liberal……

  11. Kermit Avatar
    Kermit

    I’d like to see the books of “Alliance For A Better Minnesota”. A little truth in advertising might go a long way.

  12. Ben Avatar
    Ben

    Kermit, we should submit a FoIA request, seriously

  13. Kermit Avatar
    Kermit

    Sorry, Ben. FoIA applies to government/public entities, not phony front orgs like A4aBM. Dayton has covered his dimwit ass well in this regard.

  14. MyGovIsNuts Avatar
    MyGovIsNuts

    I’ll just dissect the first paragraph of Dimwit Doggie’s poop today:

    “I actually tracked the increase in the income and earnings of the wealthy that Dayton propses to tax”…based on what criteria, over what length of time? And…are you “tracking” the SAME people or just the group? Because, in reality, people move in-and-out of tax brackets for any number of reasons. Of course, her “analysis” won’t take into account squat…but that never stops her from pooping her lies.

    “their incomes increased anywhere from 11% to 23%”…again, if I took an entire decade versus a few years, and cherrypicked the “good times” (let’s say 2005-2007), I’d get a WHOLE lot different set of percentages versus 2009-2011.

    “while the rest of us remained comparatively static”…here’s my situation, Doggie Doofis: I started 2001 at $39k a year…this year I will make $94k plus a $12k bonus. You say we remained static. LIAR. My income jumped 270%+. We all know you are a both a congenital liar and a fool.

    “His proposal of a very small percentage of additional income tax is a drop in the bucket.”

    I think I might agree with 4 words in that sentence: “drop in the bucket”. Because, as EVERYBODY who can add up the numbers knows, there is NOT enough ‘stinking, flithy, scumbag rich’ to soak to make up even a “drop in the bucket” for the $2.5 billion Governor Moonbat wants to tax. Its NOT EVEN CLOSE. So that means: We’re gonna have to define ‘stinking, filthy, scumbag rich’ down to about $75k a year.

    We’re INCREASING spending, under the GOP proposal, by over $2 BILLION over the last budget. That’s called an INCREASE, not a CUT.

  15. Dog Gone Avatar
    Dog Gone

    Mitch Berg Says:
    May 26th, 2011 at 3:39 pm
    “I actually tracked the increase in the income and earnings of the wealthy that Dayton propses…

    Read: Doggone has read what the Huffington Post and Dailiy Kos has put forth, and accpeted it as gospel without further comment.”

    You wish, Mitch. You should know me better than that – I rarely even read HuffPo or the Daily Kos. I go for much more rigorous and objective sources:

    “From the introductory paragraph of “The Growth of Executive Pay”, by Lucian Bebchuk, Harvard Law School and Nber Yaniv Grinstein, Cornell University, Johnson School of Management:

    “This paper examine both empirically and theoretically the growth of US executive pay during the period 1993-2003. During this period, pay has grown much beyond the increase that could be explained by changes in firm size, performance, and industry classification. Had the relationship of compensation to size, performance and industry classification remained the same in 2003 as it was in 1993, mean compensation in 2003 would have been only about half of its actual size.”

    and

    “According to the Federal Reserve, U.S. corporations held a record $1.93 trillion in cash on their balance sheets in 2010. But they are not investing to expand their companies, grow the real economy or create good middle-class jobs. Corporate CEOs are literally hoarding their company’s cash—except when it comes to their own paychecks.

    In 2010, Standard & Poor’s 500 Index company CEOs received, on average, $11.4 million in total compensation— a 23 percent increase in one year.[1] Based on 299 companies’ most recent pay data for 2010, their combined total CEO pay of $3.4 billion could support 102,325 median workers’ jobs.[2]
    1 AFL-CIO analysis of 299 companies in the S&P 500 Index. CEO pay data provided by Salary.com.
    2 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2009 Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, national cross-industry estimate of median annual compensation for all occupations.”

    Both quotes are from:
    http://penigma.blogspot.com/2011/05/even-their-owners-shareholders-need.html#more

  16. Dog Gone Avatar
    Dog Gone

    The above are just a few of the sources I checked; there was no cherry picking, nor did I limit myself to CEOs or executives pay, but rather the growth in wealth of the upper 2% – this was just a sample of sources that was handy to quote here.

    That cherrypicking and distortion is the purview of ‘mygoveisnuts’.

    It also addresses the utter fallacy that by giving more tax cuts to the wealthy they will miraculously bless the rest of us who make those sacrifices to pay for what they don’t with more jobs when clearly that is also NOT TRUE.

    It’s just another conservative LIE, that you all like to repeat over and over and over. Repetition doesn’t make it true, as factual objective sources demonstrate.

  17. MyGovIsNuts Avatar
    MyGovIsNuts

    Doggie dimwit strikes again.

    WHO in the HELL said we were giving “tax cuts” now? Again, you are mixing up apples with piston engines, creating your own straw men.

    Idiot, thy name is Dog.

  18. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    “Repetition doesn’t make it true.”

    Well, you libturds seem to thing this way! And, I’m sorry, but a Harvard Law professor and Cornell professor have zero credibility!

    The day that you quit being a two faced POS and criticize your brain addled hero Dayton for preaching higher taxes for everyone but his family, then you might have at least some credibility. But, I won’t hold my breath on that one, because you have illustrated constantly that in your elves in the hollow tree world, libturds can get away with murder.

  19. MyGovIsNuts Avatar
    MyGovIsNuts

    Hey Doggie: How’s you and your liburd buddies explain THIS!!!

    “Over the last two years, the Obama administration has approved a whopping $34.4 million in compensation to the top six executives of the financially troubled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage giants…”

    That’s right. The One signed off on this. YOUR One.

  20. Troy Avatar
    Troy

    LOL!

    Dog Gone said:

    “there was no cherry picking, nor did I limit myself to CEOs or executives pay, but rather the growth in wealth of the upper 2%”

    The “upper 2%”, this months focus in the DFL Two Minutes Hate.

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