And another specimen from the ol’ mailbag. This time, it’s just a picture:
Oh, are we back to the anti-tax meme? Last week, I noticed in a news report on an unexpected decline in revenue from Minnesota state taxes, Republican state House Rep Kurt Daudt immediately blamed the $500 million shortfall on “all the millionaires leaving the state because of taxes.”
That doesn’t pass the sniff test, much less the belly laugh test. What a dirtbag. Water-carrier.
Couldn’t be the economy starting to slow down, could it? Or someone screwed up in forecasting? No, it’s all about the myth of Minnesota being so heavily taxed.
This sort of thing doesn’t depend on any single message, just all of them put together. I often hear, from the older generation, weeping and moaning about a .5% rise in one tax or another. They don’t seem to get that the services rendered from those taxes are what ATTRACTS employers here. And that this isn’t like the American Revolution, the slogan of which was NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. We have plenty of representation.
Sometimes all of us working together accomplish a whole lot more than all of working apart. And I’m tired of Republicans with smoke coming out of their ears every time they can find a way to blame something on supposedly taxes.
