When Grownups Run Things

On the one hand: Minnesota hikes taxes two billion dollars. The “surplus” rises about $200 million over what the Republican majority in 2011-2012 left. The DFL majority is currently arguing not so much over how to spend the “surplus’, but how many times over it shall be spent.

On the not-stupid hand: Wisconsin under Scott Walker cut taxes. Wisconsin’s surplus is pushing a billion dollars. And the only argument in Wisconsin today is “how are the taxpayers going to get the overbilling back?”

“The additional revenue should be returned to taxpayers because it’s their money, and my administration will work with the Legislature to determine the most prudent course of action,” Walker said in a statement.

Walker has been talking with Republican leaders about tax cut proposals he plans to release in his State of the State speech next Wednesday. Walker’s spokeswoman Jocelyn Webster said the governor wants to adjust income tax withholding tables to put more money in taxpayers’ pockets immediately and is also eyeing income and property tax reductions.

It’d sure be nice to have grownups in charge in Minnesota again.

(VIa regular commenter Chuck)

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January 17, 2014

Capitalism v Socialism, Great Plains and Midwest, Taxes

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8 responses to “When Grownups Run Things”

bosshoss429

January 17, 2014

Yea, I just heard racist idiot Ryan Winkler’s latest idea for spending it on education.
Chuck

January 17, 2014

As I mentioned, the left in Wisconsin is extremely angry about the surplus. It would be like Phillip La Follete (semi-pacifist liberal gov’r of Wisconsin who opposed going to war as late as Dec 1, 1941) and Charles Lindbergh being extremely angry that Midway and D-Day were successful, as they don’t want to see Roosevelt succeed in the war.

Actually that is something many Republicans in Wisconsin have been saying. The democrats don’t want Wisconsin to have a good ecomony as that would be a win for Governor Walker. In Minnesota, as much as I dislike our current government, I still want the state to do well, even if it means Dayton and his cronies get credit for it.
bikebubba

January 17, 2014

Of course, the possibility of reducing the size of the bonding bill using the surplus, or God forbid actually reducing state debt, does not appear to have occurred to the legislature or Governor. God forbid that we should use the “fat years” (Genesis 41) to prepare for the lean ones.

For that matter, hopefully a little bit of debt retirement is on the table across the river, too.
justplainangry

January 17, 2014

Charles Lindbergh was extremely angry that Midway and D-Day were successful because he was a Nazi sympathiser.
justplainangry

January 17, 2014

The “surplus” rises about $200 million over what the Republican majority in 2011-2012 left.

Where do you think money to pay for the Viqueen’s stadium is going to come from? A tooth fairy? Duh!
Mitch Berg

January 17, 2014

Lindbergh was an America-Firster. He – like all America-Firsters – opposed getting involved in a European war. He also had some racial beliefs that don’t play well today. His biographer, A Scott Berg (no relation) said he was less a Nazi sympathizer than merely naive and stubborn. He also believed that the real struggle was going to be with the Soviets – he was an ardent anti-communist.

Once the war started, he supported it…

…and in fact flew 50 combat missions as a civilian consultant (flying F4 Corsairs and P38s) and was credited with shooting down a Japanese reconaissance plane.

He toured a concentration camp at the end of the war, and so got over any lingering belief that the Nazis deserved any special mercy.
justplainangry

January 20, 2014

Lindbergh was enthralled with Nazi idealism and efficiency. Whether he sympasized out of naivete or stubborness is immaterial.
Mitch Berg

January 20, 2014

I don’t disagree.

The fact that he repented of his enthrallment matters, though.