Open Letter To The Entire Twin Cities Media
By Mitch Berg
To: Twin CIties Media
From: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant
Re: Comforting The Confortable While Afflicting The Afflicted
Minnesota Media,
The Klink regime – in this case, politruk Flanagan – have been making this claim in various degrees ever since the election:
Questions someone might think of asking the Administration:
- Where do they get this 33% number?
- They expect this number to be measured how?
- And measured by when?
Given the administration’s, uh, innumeracy, it’d seem to be important.
That is all.
October 10th, 2023 at 7:19 am
Geez, Mitch, kinda negative. Don’t you want child poverty (whatever that is) to be reduced?
Seems to me that with that massive surplus (of tax payers money), rather than piss around with lesser percentages, enough money could’ve been spent on *resolving* child poverty, you know, like reducing it by 100%. Kinda like how education in MN is now *fully funded*.
For about 5 minutes.
October 10th, 2023 at 7:51 am
The numbers are simple. They have tax returns, and you simply mine the data to figure out whose tax returns classify them as poor, add the child tax credit to their income, and see if they still qualify as poor. In doing so, you assume that they don’t cut their work hours because they’re getting along just fine. You also ignore that a large number of the poor are poor because they have habits that….extra money can help them indulge.
So my prediction is that official numbers of poverty drop about 15%, and we lose a fair number of the poor to overdoses and such. This kind of generousity can be brutal on those whom it “benefits”.
October 10th, 2023 at 8:03 am
It occurs to me that maybe if there hadn’t been such a concerted effort to resolve child poverty in Somalia, IYKWIMAITYD, there would’ve been even more funds available for MN.
October 10th, 2023 at 8:37 am
I thought Somalia moved to MN, ergo money is spent in MN, no?
October 10th, 2023 at 8:48 am
DFL: We are giving every qualified child a $1,750 tax credit.
Child Care Provider: Hold my beer, let’s see how fast I could put that money in my pocket.
Child Care Provider Lobbyist: Hold your own beer, let’s see how fast I can put it in my pocket.
DFL: Before you two get greedy, remember who is lining your pockets.
October 10th, 2023 at 8:50 am
We’re heading North, straight through the rubble of the TC and on to cleaner air tomorrow for a special birthday party this weekend; driving because fuck TSA and the entire airline industry…
My present is the keys to a trust to be used, in the event Weimerica hasn’t fallen, to keep certain waifs in private school through to college or trade school, far away from the rabble, the pedophiles and the degenerates in the government system. Just like my own boys were.
In addition to a more wholesome academic environment, no chemically treated proto food will ever pass their lips.
That’s how families invest in the well being and prosperity of their children.
October 10th, 2023 at 9:49 am
jpa, I was making a (possibly too obscure) reference to the Feeding Our Future scam-dal in which some, many, most or perhaps all of the Somalis involved went back to Somalia with their ill-gotten gains before MN authorities could apprehend them. If they were ever going to.
Say, what did happen to that scandal? Any bureaucrats and/or DFL poo-bahs get any heat? Punishment?
October 10th, 2023 at 10:41 am
If you want to increase supply of something, subsidize it. If you want to decrease it, tax it. I’m sure the Flanagan arithmetic is correct as far as it goes. However, by handing out more money we will be increasing the number of poor people. Perhaps the money would be better spent improving education (I don’t mean throwing money at schools, I mean improving curricula so kids get through school with a meaningful hope of becoming self-supporting. We could start by firing every diversity worker.) We could spend more on law enforcement so kids are less likely to choose a lawless lifestyle as gangsters and hos. And also more businesses wouldn’t move away from crime ridden areas and the residents could have jobs in the businesses. Unfortunately I don’t see any of these solutions being proposed by the Walz/Flanagan kleptocracy.
October 11th, 2023 at 1:13 pm
Just like the Obama admin, with their “jobs saved or created” stat. Statists seem to love to go for unmeasurable stats. Is it because an unmeasurable stat can’t be debunked? I’d point out such stats are also unprovable, but when has the MSM let that stop them from repeating it?
October 11th, 2023 at 2:56 pm
I mean improving curricula so kids get through school with a meaningful hope of becoming self-supporting.
This is exactly what the DFL doesn’t want. They need as much government dependency as possible, because they know that’s what buys votes. Therefore it will never happen in this state.