…if any were needed, that liberals must be kept away from the machinery of power, since they just don’t know what they’re doing; Jeff Fecke over at Sorosmania the MinMon (and I swear, this is not satire) covers Governor Pawlenty’s tax cut proposal (emphasis added):
Saying that “The economy in our country is under great strain,” Gov. Tim Pawlenty proposed a sales tax cut of 1/8 percent on Friday as part of his supplemental budget proposal.
The move is something of a surprise, as the state faces a $935 million shortfall in the state’s biennial budget.
The move is a surprise – if you’ve been under a rock since 1980 (or at least if George Soros is paying to pretend you’ve been under one).
For the rest of us? Not so much.
No surprise to borrow-and-spend Republicans, of course.
The clown prefers to pull a few more shekels out of the working man’s pocket to cutting spending.
The sales tax, even in MN, is regressive. Poor people pay a larger portion of their incomes in sales tax than the wealthy do. Liberals talk like Robin Hood, but in reality they’ll take the money from any one they can. I wonder if that 1/8% would have gone to the DLNR to buy wetlands for middle-class hunters or pay raises for civil servants . . .
He compares the year long effect to renters taxes to a single example of sales tax relief when buying a toaster.
Isn’t there something in their code of ethics about not being a complete asswipe?
Borrow and spend if you live in NY, AC. Here, as in most states, you can’t run a deficit and since plans call to spend the rainy-day fund to get that cut he’ll also have to cut spending, which is what’s got Fecke’s sphincter puckered.
Nerdbert-
What’s to stop the legislature from floating a billion dollars worth of bonds? Republicans aren’t the only ones who like to borrow & spend.