I called this series “The Dayton Dustbowl for couple of reasons. One of them is fairly obvious; raising taxes in a recession is just plain stupid.
The other is a little more subtle; the original Dust Bowl on the great plains was a combination of circumstances; some of them out of human control, and well within; a drought combined with a depression exacerbated by government reaction to an economic downturn.
The victims? For all the publicity about stock barons diving off window ledges (mostly apocryphal), the people who suffered the most were the people who had the skin in the game; the farmers and people of the rural midwest.
And as I noted in the first part of this series, the Dayton Dust Bowl – a combination of a deep recession Minnesota didn’t cause, which would be exacerbated and institutionalized by Dayton’s proposed tax policy and spending proposals – would have the same affect; it’d make being a hard-working, middle-class Minnesotan a much more difficult thing. The “cop and nurse” that the Emmer campaign refers to – the hard-working husband and wife who put in extra hours and scrape and scramble to make over $150K between ’em – will get hammered by new taxes just as they are reeling from the Obama tax hikes next year.
The tax hikes – and their revenue sources – will erase hard-won advances in school choice (charter schools), and make entrepreneurship, especially for the Subchapter S corporations that drive so much job creation, deeply unattractive in Minnesota.
And for what? A fatter, happier government employee base?
A Teachers Union that can work without fear of competition?
Who else wins?
There was never a chance I was going to vote for Mark Dayton. After reading this four-page “plan”, I have to wonder – why would anyone with half a brain?
Who’s not a government union employee, anyway?
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