What a contrast! Earlier today, we heard Governor Dayton lay out a vision for our state based on Minnesota values: fairness, opportunity and shared responsibility. He laid out a vision for a broadly prosperous Minnesota ? a state that works for all Minnesotans once again. This afternoon, we?ve been rushed back to the House floor to act on a bill that offers no vision whatsoever other than blindly, randomly hacking away at fairness by increasing property taxes, hacking away at opportunity by driving college tuitions higher, and hacking away at any sense of shared responsibility for the future of our state. We?ve been rushed back to the House floor to watch the Republican majority break promise after promise, and play politics with a sure veto as opposed to get things done. You said your first priority was job creation, yet this bill cuts jobs. You said that you would hold our seniors harmless, yet you harm them with this proposal. You said that children would be a priority, yet those children who most need someone to protect them from being abused are your victims. You said that you wouldn?t raise people?s taxes, yet your first bill will inevitably result in higher taxes. You made big promises along the campaign trail, yet you are breaking them here at the Capitol. No one disputes that we have to make tough choices to balance the budget deficit. The governor has said it, and the DFL caucus has said the same. But in contrast to this bill, we refuse check our values or our reason at the door, no matter how dire the crisis we face. We reject the flawed belief that the middle class must bear the budget burden that should fall on the many. Ordinary Minnesota families have been squeezed too much by Tim Pawlenty?s flawed economic policies ? policies this bill blindly continues. Bemidji, Detroit Lakes, Alexandria, Marshall, Willmar, Moorhead, Mankato, Albert Lea ? all of these communities and more have spoken out and asked you not to kill their small businesses, not to raise their property taxes, not to make them pay when others will not. Where is the fairness? Chambers of Commerce from Crookston to Albert Lea have said that this bill hurts business, but here we are, on this runaway train of reckless Republican budgeting. Minnesotans are paying billions more in property taxes because of the policies that this bill expands and extends. From all across the state, they?re calling on us to stop the madness. They?re going to town hall meetings and writing letters to their local papers begging us to listen to their justified concerns about their property tax bills. Well, I?m sorry, Minnesota, the Republican Majority is not listening. More important, Minnesota ? prepare for a lot more of the same and worse from the Republican legislature. Because of all the promises the Republicans offered on the campaign trail, there is one promise that they have consistently and repeatedly insisted that they will keep: This Republican Majority told Minnesotans that an all cuts budget will be delivered ? with no need for single dollar of new revenue at all (no new taxes, no new fees, no new gambling proceeds, no school shifts, nothing). Well, I for one want to see that budget and not another bait and switch. This bill is a political game with a guaranteed veto result. I want to see the bill that you swore up and down you would deliver, a full proposal, cutting $6.2 billion. Put your money where your mouth is. You were elected to govern, to do business differently. That?s what you tell us anyway. This bill isn?t leadership. It has no vision, or even rational justification. It does not tell us where we are going. It simply recycles where we?ve been. Vote No.
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Gov Dayton Asks Rich To Help MN With Taxes And Volunteeringby UpTakeVideo239 views
@republicansgoaway Why do you keep harping on FOX? Not everybody who disgree's with a lib is a FOX viewer. Attacking? So far you've called me a dumbass, Uneducatable. Yet somehow I managed to get a degree. A fox viewer (which in your mind seems to be some type of insult) and finally; A waste of time which is odd because you keep replying. if I was going to hazard a guess I would say you are one of those people who must have the last word in any discussion.
mssedmebich 11 months ago
@mssedmebich PBS, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, any of them work, but I would recommend watching stories from all of them in order to learn the WHOLE story, if you watch FOX, you only get 1 piece of the story. If you would take as much time trying to learn as you do attacking me, our country wouldn't be so fucked in the head.
republicansgoaway 11 months ago
@republicansgoaway You have cited no sources because you have none. Pretty much all networks are owned by corporate pigs. Are you suggesting that some corporate pigs are better then other corporate pigs? Should I watch PBS? Because surley they have no bias. Ooops! I forgot. They do! We found that out last week when some of the top brass had to resign. Some people can't be taught? Atleast you're honest but, I think eventually you will learn.
mssedmebich 11 months ago
@mssedmebich WTF sources? sorry your a waste of time? Some people can't be taught, FOX is owned by a corporate pig? you know that right? that is ok believe what you want, just go away!!!!
republicansgoaway 11 months ago
@republicansgoaway I've given my sources. You have yet too refute (with fact's and sources) anything I've said. What are your sources? MSNBC? (I thought I would play the same dumb game that the left seems to be obsessed with.) I suppose you hate FOX because you don't control them like some of the other news outlets. I'm actually going to have to start watching that station just to see why the left hates them so much.
mssedmebich 11 months ago
@mssedmebich Like I said you are a waste of time, it is too bad you don't use actual facts, it is ok, make up your own news if that works, the so called right wing outfit IRS, as I recall is what the right wants to do away with. Trust your corporations if that is who you believe, it is still a free country
republicansgoaway 11 months ago
@republicansgoaway What is the left's obsession with FOX? Who is section 8 housing for; The Rich? Who is AFDC for; The Rich? Do the rich use food stamps? As far as the tax figure is concerned it's from this awful right wing outfit called the IRS. Ever heard of them? I don't have cable TV and the news I watch most often would be CBS with the perky Katy Curick
mssedmebich 11 months ago
@mssedmebich I am sorry I don't watch FOX, but I do know the FACT is the rich getting are getting richer, and you have no actual FACTS to back up your bullshit, poor getting EVERYTHING? sounds like a FOX FACT
republicansgoaway 11 months ago
@republicansgoaway The poor get everything. They get food stamps,welfare, section 8 housing/public housing, free schools, earned income tax credits, medicade, medicare,SSI even if they never worked a day in their life. The top 5% of income earners foot 40+ percent of the bill for income taxes paid. You ever seen those idiots standing on the street with the cardboard signs panhandleing? They can make $30 an hour TAX FREE. What do they contribute? You know what the rich do? They sign Paychecks!
mssedmebich 11 months ago
@mssedmebich I'm not suggesting increasing budget, I feel the rich, that are getting richer, should pay their equal porportion of taxes, maybe the same tax cuts they have benefited from taken away, why should the richest have the most significant cuts? TAX THE RICH, the poor have nothing more
republicansgoaway 11 months ago