{"id":12925,"date":"2010-08-26T10:17:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T15:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12925"},"modified":"2010-08-26T10:19:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T15:19:01","slug":"taxin-taryll-its-not-bullsht-its-pate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12925","title":{"rendered":"Taxin’ Taryll: “It’s Not Bullsh*t; It’s Pat\u00e9!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zach Rodvold – a campaign staffer – is upset about Michele Bachmann’s round of “Taxin’ Tarryl” ads.
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The problem is, the only thing he does is continue to\u00a0repeat the same Big Lies the rest of the DFL is beating to death<\/a> this campaign:<\/p>\n

If Michele Bachmann wants to talk about fiscal responsibility – let’s talk. Tarryl Clark consistently voted to hold down taxes on 95% of working Minnesotans,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, no. \u00a0She supports Obamacare and the sunset of the Bush Tax Cuts, both of which will tighten the screws on all Minnesotans, in the exceedingly <\/em>unlikely event she’s elected.<\/p>\n

including reducing the burden of property taxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this is one of the DFL’s most cynical lies.<\/p>\n

This all ties back to their Local Government Aid canard; local governments, the story says, have to raise their property taxes when the state cuts LGA. \u00a0Conversely, cities and counties can lower property taxes when the state pays more LGA launders that spending burden through the Legislature and down to the rest of the state’s taxpayers.<\/p>\n

Of course it’s BS; that was one of the rationales behind pushing all state education spending up to the State during the Ventura regime; local districts just displaced the spending and kept, or ratcheted up, the taxes.<\/p>\n

There is no <\/em>reason to believe that paying more LGA would make the DFL-controlled, spendaholic Twin Cities and Duluth any more responsible – much less induce them to cut property taxes.<\/p>\n

Unlike Bachmann, Tarryl has taken tough votes to balance budgets<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that’s another DFL Big Lie – that “balanced budgets” are, in and of themselves, a virtue. \u00a0They’re not; they just mean that state government is completely paid for with the revenue at hand. \u00a0If you tripled the size of state government (and its spending), but confiscated three times the revenue to pay for it, they could say “the budget is balanced”, all right; it’d be balanced on the taxpayers’ backs. (Heck – they could quadruple <\/em>taxes and brag they had a surplus!)<\/p>\n

If there’s one byproduct to the Tea Party movement and the electorate’s swing to the right this past year, it’s that the DFL realizes they need <\/em>to couch their rapacity in pseudo-responsible weasel words like “balanced budget” and “property taxes relief”.<\/p>\n

Between the lines, it’s the same old rot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zach Rodvold – a campaign staffer – is upset about Michele Bachmann’s round of “Taxin’ Tarryl” ads. The problem is, the only thing he does is continue to\u00a0repeat the same Big Lies the rest of the DFL is beating to death this campaign: If Michele Bachmann wants to talk about fiscal responsibility – let’s talk. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12925"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12935,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925\/revisions\/12935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}