Dayton: It’s Gonna Hurt So Bad
By Johnny Roosh
The Governor elect appeared on Bloomberg yesterday and continues to hedge his campaign promises as he realizes how far out of sync they are with the wishes of Minnesotans as expressed so clearly in nearly every Minnesota election contest…save his.
Republican leaders have so far indicated they will be taking a hard line against raising taxes — a key facet of Dayton’s budget plans during the campaign. During the Bloomberg interview, however, Dayton warned that a budget solution without tax increases would have serious consequences.
[insert serious sounding music here]
Indeed. To a liberal, serious consequences mean the devastating possibility that government may have to do more with less…sort of like most of the rest of us.
“I campaigned on a pledge that I would reduce the regressivity of Minnesota’s state and local taxes and ask upper income Minnesotans to pay closer to their appropriate share — the same amount as everybody else,” Dayton said.
This always makes me laugh…or cry depending on the day.
First off, what kind of delusional pinhead labels a tax rate that increases with income regressive? It’s by definition progressive. That’s what the word means you twit.
Then again, who can blame a guy who is so far removed from reality; whose butler’s butler pays his bills from the coffers his great grandpappy filled years ago.
Second, half of us don’t pay taxes at all – many get a “tax credit” even when they pay nothing (save social security) into the system. I know a lot of people that employ others that pay in one quarterly installment what many people pay in taxes all year long. The fact is, upper income Minnesotans pay way more than their share by any measure of the use of services, infrastructure or resources you can muster.
Add in all the additional sales taxes (albeit somewhat by choice), self employment taxes, and alternative minimum taxes, just to name a few that the upper middle class – let alone the wealthy – pay and it is clear that the Pareto principal is alive and well as it regards a minority representing a majority of revenue collected in the form of taxes.
The fact is, thousands are getting a free ride – and none of them are “upper income.” You want to talk fairness? For real? Then everybody that makes anything should pay something – anything into the system.
“Republicans don’t think [raising taxes is] such a great idea, but they’re going to find it’s very difficult to cut $6.2 billion — which is about 19 percent of our budget — without drastically affecting especially education, which is almost half of the state expenditure.”
Either way, he said, “it’s going to be very painful, there’s no way around it.”
Indeed, and if Republicans don’t deliver that pain they won’t be delivering on the promises that got them elected either.
December 16th, 2010 at 7:06 am
Nice screensnap. If I tinker with the contrast on my monitor I can see a six foot tall rabbit peering over his shoulder.
December 16th, 2010 at 7:12 am
What is so irritating about Dayton and his ilk is they don’t recognize failure. All they can see is a lack of resolve to do more of the wrong thing. Still, it’s the hand we’ve been dealt. The next four year ought to have plenty of high comedy. We had all better learn to laugh.
December 16th, 2010 at 7:13 am
Liberals have a blind spot when it comes to evaluating wealth and taxes. Listen (if you dare) to part of Sen. Bernie Sanders rant about billionaires. He persists in the belief that wealth can be confiscated–should be confiscated–and re-distributed and that society will benefit as a result. He misses the point that given our overly complex tax system there will always be a way for the wealthy to legally minimize what they pay in taxes and that society benefits from the wealthy investing what they have made in profitable enterprises, which actually does do something for society beyond throwing cash at people. The same goes for reducing corporate income tax rates. People who get steamed about US corporations going overseas miss the point that they still pay taxes to the host nation–just at a lower rate. If the corporate tax rate was lower in the US, we would all benefit because we would collect the tax, not a foreign country. Personally I would be happy to see a flat tax rate. No deductions, no sheltering, completely transparent. Socialist democrats like Sanders won’t touch that because they wouldn’t be able to demogogue against the wealthy anymore, and then where would they be?
December 16th, 2010 at 7:16 am
I saw that interview. God this man is an absolute nut job! He looks like a deer in headlights!
On the other hand, over in WI, the Governor elect is already lining up for battle against the government and teacher unions! Maybe I’ll move over there.
Tommy Doodoo is already started a new advertising campaign, trying to make us believe that it’s all abou edumacation. I laugh every time I hear that idiot cry poverty, when they spend a few hundred grand on TV ads! Pathetic losers, all1
December 16th, 2010 at 7:49 am
I think the big surprise is going to come when the Lege “cuts” all that spending and nobody notices the difference! And then they can ask Dayton to make good on his issue of tax “fairness.” All he has to do, they can say, is lower taxes on the middle class, and the system will be just as fair as if he raised taxes on the upper income earners. Simple, yes?
December 16th, 2010 at 8:51 am
Brave Sir Mark described the problem: education, which is almost half of the state expenditure. The DFL is packed with Education Minnesota people. Our $6.2 billion deficit is the simple and obvious result of corruption.
If only we had an Attorney General. One who wasn’t in the bag for the unions.
December 16th, 2010 at 9:49 am
How sweet would it be if someone ran up and slapped a P0op sign on Governor JimBeam’s lapel?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oNynZ0dSMM
He wouldn’t even notice, probably.