Tax Cuts!
By Mitch Berg
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 is rebating 1.4 billion dollars worth of local, state and federal taxes to the consumer of Saint Paul!
BERG: Um, we’re spending a billion and change on a light rail line.
LIBRELLE: Right – the taxes were paid, and then the money is being sent back to the taxpayer in the form of rail! It’s a tax cut!
BERG: That’s absurd.
LIBRELLE: And MNSure is tens of millions of taxpayer dollars being returned to Minnesota’s healthcare consumers.
BERG: And Information Technology companies, and business consultants.
LIBRELLE: Exactly! All of them are benefitting from the Tax Cuts!
BERG: None of these are tax cuts. All of them are government taking money from some people, and giving it to others…
LIBRELLE: …you’re a sore loser, Merg! Why, look at the tax cuts we’re giving to the working poor!
BERG: “Tax cuts?” You hiked the budget $2.1 Billion, and took over a billion extra out of the economy, and the DFL’s idea of a “tax cut” is to give a few million back to people to reinforce their DFL votes?
LIBRELLE: Blah blah blah! It’s tax money, and someone is getting it back!
BERG: So giving hundreds of millions of tax dollars to Zygi Wilf is a “tax cut?”
LIBRELLE: Is it tax money? Is someone getting it? It’s a tax cut!
BERG: So the CIA and the SEALS gave Osama Bin Laden a “tax cut” when they killed him?
LIBRELLE: Don’t be absurd! They lowered the unemployment rate!
(And SCENE)
March 5th, 2014 at 4:58 pm
Mitch, I’d like to hear your thoughts on the news of the Republican candidate running against Crazy Phyllis Kahn. A Somali-American who is pro-school choice, pro-life, pro-traditional marriage. His district voted for the marriage amendment in a city that usually went 3-1 against it.
This district votes 75% Democrat, but perhaps the times are changing with it becoming an East African majority district. A group of people who have no plans to sit at the back of the Democrat bus. The question is if they can see their path to self-determination and influence is outside the Democrat party apparatus. And lets hope Republicans aren’t stupid enough not to see this.