They’re Winging It. And Badly.

Rep. Ben Lien (DFL Moorhead) was interviewed about two weeks ago on one of the Fargo TV stations by Fargo talk host Chris Berg (no relation that I know of).

This first question was in re whether Lien would support a business services tax increase (which was at that time on the table, but is putatively off it now):

The answer to the question “would you support these taxes?” from this very red-county Representative would seem to be “I’ll wait until I get my talking points from Alida”.

And asked if he believes Governor Dayton’s attacks on corporations – the idea that they are tax-avoiding sponges that don’t carry their fair share of the state’s tax burden – this one is hilarious:

Citizens of Moorhead – a fairly red place, indeed: what were you thinking?

(View the entire eight minute interview here)