The Dayton Dust Bowl: Now We’re All Rich!

If you are an above average nurse and police officer, or a couple of modestly-successful project managers, or an airline mechanic and a school teacher, or a business analyst and a modestly-successful sanitation equipment salesman, or whatever combination of hard-working Minnesotans you can imagine that are making a combined $150,000 a year, your taxes are going up.

We use the term “average” advisedly;  when Margaret Anderson Kelliher asked Mark Dayton why he wanted to raise taxes on a nurse and police officer, Dayton replied that the average nurse and police officer do not make enough money to reach his definition of “rich.”

So above average nurses and cops and anyone else making $130,000 per year – you need to pay your “fair share” to the government.

And by “Fair Share”, that means when you and your spouse – or you alone, if you’re a fairly successful computer programmer or project manager or small-but-hardworking intrepreneur, or a cop that works lots of overtime and security gigs, or a nurse that picks up a bunch of extra hourly shifts – are going to take a big, nasty hit when you creep above that $130K income line.

Whichever one it is.

And that’s on top of all the nasty hits you’re going to get after January 1 from the Feds.

So keep plugging away, Minnesota.   I’m sure the state will appreciate all that hard work.