Method To Strib’s Madness
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:
Surprising to see a sensible opinion piece in Strib. Notice it’s NOT by a staff writer.
It’s by Mike McGroarty, a PR guy who used to write speeches for an unspecified administration. And it’s the sort of op-ed piece that pops up in the mainstream media during the odd spasm of balance-mongering; McGroarty walks through how much revenue the Feds would make if they didn’t just tax the rich, but actually confiscated every penny they’d had, starting with the billionaires (Bill Gates’ entire fortune would run the entire government for a few days) and working down through all the millionaires, taking every penny, like a power mower moving through a cabbage patch.
You could run the government for a year; read the article.
Doakes:
But still – the notion that the Strib would even allow this concept to be discussed in its pages is weird. What if somebody were to ask “Hey, what if we did that in Minnesota, as Governor Dayton suggests, how would that work?” People might actually start thinking about how silly the DFL is and then all those years of shilling for Liberals would go down the toilet.
That’s why the Strib runs the article in February – seven months before 99% of Minnesotans start thinking about elections.
Just like they did two years ago, with all questions about Dayton’s alcohol and mental illness records; they got ’em out of the way long before any voters cared.
That’s how they roll…
February 2nd, 2012 at 7:10 am
I’ve encountered the analysis before. In fact, I thought I read it on SITD once before, but I could be wrong. In any case, the DFL brain trust realizes by now that the average person doesn’t read the Strib other than the sports pages. So easy for them to publish dissent (in February, as you astutely point out) and then forget about it the rest of the way. Once the campaign gets going in earnest, we can expect to see OWS get up and running again, with hours of videotape documenting the soundchecks and chanting, and Democrat candidates from top to bottom demonizing the wealthy, demanding they pay their “fair share” (whatever that is) and not EVER doing the math.
February 2nd, 2012 at 7:31 am
There was a You Tube video early last year that tackled this same subject. I can’t remember who put it out, but if I recall, it was the economics department of a university. He also threw in selling all of the mansions of liberal Hollyweird stars. At the conclusion, the host indicated that even after all of that money came in, the government would run out of money to operate in early November and asks the inevitable; “Then what will they do?” I’ll try to find it and post the link later today.