{"id":4630,"date":"2009-04-22T12:08:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T17:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2009-04-22T12:42:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T17:42:35","slug":"to-the-victor-belongs-the-goodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4630","title":{"rendered":"To The Victor Belongs The Goodies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Gary Gross at Let Freedom Ring, GOP State Rep Steve Gottwalt\u00a0 blows the whistle on some gratuitous DFL overreach<\/a>:<\/p>\n

ST. PAUL – State Rep. Steve Gottwalt, R-St. Cloud, said he is shocked by the number of anti-business bills being pushed by the [DFL] House majority this session. With Minnesota facing a $6.4 billion budget deficit, Gottwalt said the best thing the Legislature could do this session is help more residents find work.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBesides solving our budget deficit, the most important task lawmakers have this session is to approve policies that help retain and create jobs,\u201d Gottwalt said. \u201cInstead, Minnesota House Democrats are repeatedly proposing job killing tax increases.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gross follows up with a question for the DFL – especially\u00a0DFL rep. Tom Bakk, who’s been leading the “tax ’em til they drop” faction\u00a0of the DFL:\u00a0<\/p>\n

I just posted a criticism of the Senate DFL\u2019s job-killing tax increases<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. At the heart of that post is this question for Tom Bakk: If people are willing to travel across the Minnesota-Wisconsin border to save $20 in liquor taxes, why does Sen. Bakk think that a small business wouldn\u2019t move across the Minnesota-South Dakota border to save $50,000 a year in in come taxes<\/em>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Short of building a wall with minefields and dogs to prevent escape, y’mean?<\/p>\n

Oops.\u00a0 I should erase that last bit. I\u00a0 know DFLers who read this blog…<\/p>\n

Gottwalt lists some examples of, er,\u00a0gross DFL overreach:<\/p>\n

Gottwalt listed several House proposals that could significantly hamper the way employers conduct business:<\/p>\n

\u25cf HF 2031, which prohibits Minnesota from purchasing products from the Willmar-based Jennie-O Turkey Store at the request of unions.<\/span><\/strong> Gottwalt said if Democrats succeed in blacklisting this Minnesota business, there would be nothing stopping them from going after any business at the request of unions or other special interests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I’m not anti-union by any means –\u00a0unlike most DFLers, I’ve\u00a0been in a union – this is the kind of thing that needs to be jumped on with heavy boots.\u00a0 When unions start using\u00a0the power\u00a0of government to get their payback, society is\u00a0screwed.\u00a0 This is the sort of thing that dragged the British economy into the toilet in the ’60s and ’70s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u25cf HF 644, which sets mandates on companies with city contracts, regulating who they must hire, but exempting union labor contracts<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ditto.<\/p>\n

Gross:<\/p>\n

Gottwalt added that the real job killer is the $4.4 billion tax increase proposed by House Democrats. That includes a new income tax bracket. The new 9-percent bracket would place Minnesota among the nation\u2019s highest income taxes.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeep in mind 92 percent of small businesses in Minnesota pay taxes through personal income taxes, meaning that any income tax increase will directly hurt our small employers and economic recovery,\u201d Gottwalt said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what we have here is the DFL paying back its markers to the unions, serving as a thuggish enforcer for their\u00a0wishes.<\/p>\n

(And\u00a0wouldn’t a law <\/em>that singles out a\u00a0specific company for non-criminal reasons take a big\u00a0steaming dump on the Fourteenth Amendment?)<\/p>\n

Keep it going, DFL.\u00a0 You’re making this whole “opposition pundit” thing easier and easier.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Gary Gross at Let Freedom Ring, GOP State Rep Steve Gottwalt\u00a0 blows the whistle on some gratuitous DFL overreach: ST. PAUL – State Rep. Steve Gottwalt, R-St. Cloud, said he is shocked by the number of anti-business bills being pushed by the [DFL] House majority this session. With Minnesota facing a $6.4 billion budget […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630","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=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}