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Dayton Dustbowl: Too Stupid

Mark Dayton’s budget:  three billion in new taxes.

Minnesotans who make toward $200K – dentists, middle managers, car salespeople, a few really good, hard-working waitstaff, fairly capable software developers, and above all, successful enterepreneurs – will be paying 10.95%.  Over $500K ?  An additional 3% “surcharge”, meaning top-flight lawyers, successful doctors, quite a few upper managers, and above all Minnesota’s most successful entrepreneurs and job creators – will be paying just shy of 14%.

All for the privilege of living in Minnesota.

Even California and New York are smarter than this.

You can not tax your way out of a recession.  Government can not spend its way out of a recession; if it could, California and Illinois would be sitting pretty, and North Dakota would look like Michigan.

This budget should not be voted down in the Legislature.  It should be killed with fire.  Then voted down.

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26 responses to “Dayton Dustbowl: Too Stupid”

  1. Terry Avatar
    Terry

    A governor elected by 44% of voters cannot get this past a GOP legislature.
    When it fails, Dayton will switch to the usual backup and push for increased license fees, sin taxes and sales taxes, i.e. taxes for being poor.
    They just. Want. The money.

  2. Kermit Avatar
    Kermit

    I’m happy to pay for a better Minnesota. With your money.

  3. bubbasan Avatar
    bubbasan

    Thank you, GOP voters who voted for the “independent,” for this idiot.

    It’s worth noting that, as top earners already pay something like 39% in federal taxes, 15% in FICA (no that’s not a “contribution” by your employer!), and 9% (?) in state taxes, the “5%” tax hike Dayton proposes actually represents about 11% less disposable income available to the prosperous. It’s a fairly big incentive to leave the state.

    And if you think that a few neurosurgeons leaving the state might affect some people at the other end of the income scale, go to the head of the class, as Professor Williams would say.

  4. golfdoc50 Avatar
    golfdoc50

    As Jake Gittes said to Lt Escobar in Chinatown: “Lou, you’re dumber than you think I think you are.”

  5. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Let’s see how many of the dumb ass lawyers that supported this goon react. Better yet, they’ll be looking for all of the loopholes they can find in the tax code to avoid paying “their share.”

  6. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    Now that we have something to poop on, can we assemble a Winter MOB party…before Spring?

  7. Chuck Avatar
    Chuck

    Meanwhile, the teachers in Madison Wisconsin let their students out of school so they could protest against Governor Walker. When asked what they were protesting, well, see for yourself.

    http://badgerblogger.com/

  8. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    can we assemble a Winter MOB party

    Announcement, hopefully, tomorrow.

  9. nate Avatar
    nate

    The last shut-down, TV crews scrambled to find families whose Fourth of July camping trip to the state park was canceled when the park closed because DNR was shut down.

    On the Fourth of July! It’s unpatriotic! Republicans are traitors!

    I’m yawning. Hey, I can’t afford to go to fancy-schmancy state parks, I have to go to the KOA campground, why should your campsite get a fat government subsidy? Bite me, mosquito boy.

    Can’t say it won’t be entertaining.
    .

  10. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    When the state government gets shut down, will Gov. JimBeam have to shag his own caviar?

  11. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    This is why Gov. JimBeam wanted the position; the US didn’t offer enough opportunities for him to asshat dance in the spotlight. I bet he puts Charlie Sheen to shame tonight…

  12. Scott Hughes Avatar
    Scott Hughes

    Mad Mark’s budget doesn’t mean a thing, it probably fulfills his constitutional requirements, but it should have zero chance of going anywhere in this congress given the results of last Nov election.

    Dayton is like a small ball of string, it ain’t going to take long for him to unravel.

  13. Terry Avatar
    Terry

    I thought that in MN the only people who earned over $500k/yr in wages worked for MPR.
    If true, then MN will balance its book by being like the mythical Scottish village where everyone became wealthy by taking in each others’ washing.

  14. Ben Avatar
    Ben

    It should be killed with fire. Then voted down.

    No, it should be chucked into the Mississippi page by page, then collected down stream and made into a paper mache statue that looks like this outside the governors mansion…

    http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://flipthatbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/art-sculpture-hand.jpg&imgrefurl=http://flipthatbird.com/random/art-sculpture-gives-the-finger/&usg=__EeNuXz7OPbe-x2ryoInLtGypWws=&h=450&w=300&sz=19&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=b2SiehTQIIH4TM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=79&ei=9SdbTb3VNIycgQeVpvHwDQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Da%2Bhand%2Bgiving%2Bthe%2Bfinger%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D1020%26bih%3D485%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=290&vpy=27&dur=30&hovh=275&hovw=183&tx=92&ty=163&oei=9SdbTb3VNIycgQeVpvHwDQ&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0

  15. Terry Avatar
    Terry

    Why do I have to always have to do the web savvy stuff?
    http://tinyurl.com/49tbdqs

  16. Ben Avatar
    Ben

    sorry Terry, i is komputer elletirate.

  17. Ben Avatar
    Ben

    sorry Terry, i is komputer elletirate.

  18. nerdbert Avatar
    nerdbert

    You wingnuts act as though you think business people will be smart enough to move their activities to lower cost/lower tax states. It’s not as though people set up trust funds in South Dakota to avoid Minnesota taxes!

    /moonbat off

  19. Terry Avatar
    Terry

    Why is it that in all of his pictures Dayton’s pupils are dilated?
    They’re like freakin’ olive pits fer God’s sake.

  20. Speed Gibson Avatar
    Speed Gibson

    May I suggest we have that winter MOB party in St. Cloud, guest of honor King Banaian?

  21. Leslie Hittner Avatar
    Leslie Hittner

    And while he claims to add funding to K-12 education, he tosses out a slam against charter schools by reducing their lease aid! Let’s hope the legislature laughs long and hard at THAT proposal.

  22. Leslie Hittner Avatar
    Leslie Hittner

    bubbasan, are not the “top earners” over the maximum income cap for FICA?

  23. bubbasan Avatar
    bubbasan

    Leslie, the only part of FICA that ends with income is the employee tax for Social Security. Medicare is on all income, as is, if I remember correctly, the employer “contribution” to Socialist Insecurity.

  24. Loren Avatar
    Loren

    I am not bubbasan, but “top earners” according to the Governor JimBeam definition are a married couple each earning $80,000 and they are definitely not over the maximum cap for FICA. And remember that there is no cap on the medicare portion of the deduction.

  25. Scott Hughes Avatar
    Scott Hughes

    Terry Says: “Why is it that in all of his pictures Dayton’s pupils are dilated?
    They’re like freakin’ olive pits fer God’s sake.”

    “I’m not sure Terry, could be A) Hangover, B) Meds, C) Madman, D) all of the above. Be very careful as you observe, it’s dangerous staring into the abyss.

  26. Terry Avatar
    Terry

    The SS cap this year is $106.8k.
    Back in the 80’s I worked on the test floor of a computer manufacturer. Some of the more senior technicians, guys in their 30’s or early 40’s — working class guys with associates degrees or military training in electronics — would hit the limit if they made some extra bucks on over time.
    I have a much better job than those guys did. Better pay compared to others in the field, better benefits, and more educational requirement, yet I have never hit the FICA limit and it is extremely doubtful that I ever will.
    Sign o’ the times.

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