Three Questions For Lt. Gov. Flanagan
By Mitch Berg
To: Lieutenant Governor Flanagan
From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant
Re: I Have Questions. Let’s Be Honest, You Just Don’t Do Answers.
Lieutenant Governor Flanagan,
I caught this tweet over the weekend:
I’ve got two questions:
1. Does This Mean You’re Cutting Taxes? One of the main reasons families (who can’t afford to leave Minnesota) are “just scraping by” is Minnesota’s confiscatory taxes. Sales taxes in the metro (when you add local to state taxes) are up over 10%. The overall tax burden, driving by state taxes, is among the heaviest in the nation, and affects people at every level.
Given that the administration of which you were an aggressively co-equal part squandered an $18B surplus, I need to ask: does this mean you’re repenting of your wastrel ways?
2. Do You Share A Platitude Tech With Gov. Walz?. Your twitter feed is not just an endless series of banal platitudes, but “style”-istically they appear to be written by the same unimaginative pollyanna-for-hire.
Example:
Perhaps endless streams of platitudes are going to sound the same no matter who the writer is, but it just seems too close to be a mere coincidence.
3. You Know My First Question Was Sarcastic, Right? There’s no way “cutting taxes” is ever going to be on the agenda, is there? Ever?
July 14th, 2025 at 7:58 am
Me thinks number of AI bots writing for libturds now outnumbers number of lakes in MN. Piglet and Lt checked out long time ago and are living tax-free on some island paid for by MN farmers.
July 14th, 2025 at 8:27 am
Sorry, but I don’t understand the problem with building and funding veterans’ homes and how this is part of an “endless series of banal platitudes”. I guess this is just too subtle for me.
July 14th, 2025 at 8:30 am
… the Flanagan tweet makes me think that the DemoCommies are thinking about promoting TradWife families (ie, traditional families from the oh-so hated 50s and 60s where Dad worked and Mom stayed at home with the kids)… nah, probably something else I’ve misunderstood.
July 14th, 2025 at 8:52 am
4. Are you considering reviewing regulatory schemes and eliminating barriers to entry for entrepreneurs?
One example I recently became aware of is that to sell more than five cars per year, you’ve got to have a physical lot that is not your home. More or less, the home mechanic can’t pull himself up by his bootstraps by repairing and “flipping” cars without–in suburbs and cities at least–a six figure investment. So both seller and buyer take it in the short because of this little bit of rent seeking.
Another one is the infamous regulation that hair braiders for African-Americans had to get trained in how to handle hair types typical of caucasians and asians. Tens of thousands of dollars in investment, very little benefit for the customer or vendor.
July 14th, 2025 at 8:58 am
Take a vacation? Plainly, she has never met a dairy farmer.
July 14th, 2025 at 10:10 am
jdm.
Sort of agree on the veteran’s facilities, but;
a. Why the sudden focus on veterans, when this state had far more homeless veterans since Timmy took office? Could it be deflection or defense for the story about the tank manual disappearing just before the traitor went to Communist China?
b. The entire DemoCommie party had been and still are, catering to illegal invaders, giving our tax money to them, while ignoring actual citizens.
c.I’ll need to see the projects actually completed, before I believe it.
July 14th, 2025 at 10:13 am
forgot this on last comment.
d. What big general contractor DemoCommie donor(s) are getting these projects and who’s getting kickbacks?
July 14th, 2025 at 2:31 pm
boss, agree with all your points, but I still don’t understand how building veterans homes is part of an “endless series of banal platitudes”.
July 15th, 2025 at 1:48 am
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