Culture Clash

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Warehouse tax snuck into law this session.  It’s been tried and repealed in other states, drives businessout of state.  Also, mining products tax makes Superior cheaper than Duluth.  Dumb.

You’d think a guy who hides his own money across the border – to take advantage of their tax laws – would understand that concept.

Joe Doakes

In all fairness, Governor Messinger Dayton might understand it.

But he’s got a DFL legislature full of people who are more used to having money laundered in-state by unions and other proxies than artfully sheltered elsewhere.

It makes their meetings difficult.

4 thoughts on “Culture Clash

  1. Because I have some friends that are union members, but vote GOP, I’m making some exceptions to my statement here. The fact that so many of union members that are still out of work due to Democrat ignorance, elitism and economic illiteracy, that most of them keep ill blindly voting for these dip sticks! What little mining is left in this state, will most likely dry up as these new taxes, piled on all of the expenses of complying with numerous unnecessary regulations hit the mining companies. God, I’m embarrassed to admit that I live here, when over 50% of our residents are too dumb to come in out of the rain!

  2. Well, they have to come up with that extra $6,000,000 to pay an out of state company to do work on the Stillwater bridge as they said they will import people rom other states with dark hues to their skin to do some of the work.

  3. BH, I also happen to be a union member..one that has never in his adult lifetime voted for any Democrat, for any office.

    This union member fully supports private sector employees rights to organize and protect the interests of it’s members. But I also believe that public sector unions should be completely disallowed.

    The unfortunate fact is many people don’t want to involve themselves in the actual goings on, and simply want to enjoy the benefits…of labor negotiations AND politics (this is true of both those that work within and outside a union shop). It would behoove people that work for a living (yes, union members too) and pay taxes that Democrat policies are ultimately and invariably antithetical to their best interests.

    I was born and raised in, and for the most part love Minnesota. I don’t love the political ideologies of Democrats, Socialists, etc…and would like to think that Minnesota is comprised of more than that.

    Now if I were one of those that was earning slightly more than it takes to get by (thanks in no small part to the policies that have served to do little more than drive up the cost of living)…you know, the ones Dayton views as filthy rich and not paying their “fair share”…I might be incline to leave.

  4. Chuck, are you saying that affirmative action regulations are forcing the state to spend a lot more to import minorities to work on a lift bridge only 30 miles from the greatest concentration of minorities in the upper Midwest outside of Chicago?

    If so, it boggles the mind.

    One would think that even a liberal could understand the concept of the “debits” side of the balance sheet, and why a smart businessman tries to reduce those debits to run a good business, but apparently not.

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