Yes,\u00a0Senators Klobuchar and Franken both oppose the Medical Device Tax<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n Minnesota’s two senators sought Monday to delay a tax on medical devices that was expected to add $28 billion over the next decade to help pay for health care reform.<\/p>\n Democratic Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken pointed to thousands of high-paying jobs that device companies support in Minnesota, headquarters to such giant devicemakers as Medtronic and St. Jude Medical. The industry has painted the tax as a job killer that would hurt innovation.<\/p>\n “The delay would give us the opportunity to repeal or reduce that tax,” said Klobuchar, co-author of a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seeking the delay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So that means the Senators will join 3rd CD Congressman Erik Paulsen and support his bill in the House to repeal the tax, right?<\/p>\n Franken is among the letter’s signers who would not support Paulsen’s plan. “I felt the offset in the Paulsen bill would have undermined the architecture of the Affordable Care Act,” Franken said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oh, don’t bother us with details! \u00a0Franken and Klobuchar – and say, doesn’t she just look stunning in the photo the Strib opted to use? – are coming out strongly in favor of delaying the tax!<\/p>\n So what’s missing from the\u00a0Strib\u00a0<\/em>story, bylined to Jim Spencer?<\/p>\n Look it over. \u00a0Carefully. \u00a0Carefully…<\/p>\n How about\u00a0any mention that both Senators voted for the tax initially? \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Both Franken and Klobuchar\u00a0participated eagerly in jamming Obamacare down the American people’s collective throat; both have timidly objected via friendly media in the least obtusive way possible; never bucking their caucus, never ruffling the Administration’s narrative,\u00a0never standing up for the thousands of constituents that are already being harmed by the tax\u00a0<\/em>in any way that would bring them any risk whatsoever. \u00a0Both of our Senators have<\/span>\u00a0invested facile lip service to delaying or repealing the tax – but neither of them<\/a> have\u00a0ever\u00a0<\/em>put a vote, or any substantive political capital, on the line.<\/p>\n Spencer’s loathsome Strib piece is what we call “public relations”. \u00a0It’s what the\u00a0Strib<\/em> and most of the rest of the Twin Cities media is there for.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Right in the nick of time as even non-political Americans start to get concerned about tax hikes and the “fiscal cliff”, some good news from the Strib! Yes,\u00a0Senators Klobuchar and Franken both oppose the Medical Device Tax! Minnesota’s two senators sought Monday to delay a tax on medical devices that was expected to add $28 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,189,155,80],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-32429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","category-mn-congressional","category-senator-franken","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32429","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=32429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76159,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32429\/revisions\/76159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png\" "\\"DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE\\"")
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