In new ads, Dayton vows to make wealthy pay ‘fair share’ of taxes

Mark Dayton, like most rich democrats, did absolutely nothing to earn his wealth, it seems to me that his “fair share” would be to donate it all to charity. And if he prefers government to charity, let him write his check to the treasury.

Very few of Minnesota’s wealthy citizens give what they should to charity. Benefactors of Pawlenty-ism, they spend their tax savings on yachts and million dollar mansions on Minnetonka. Mark Dayton, on the other hand, has given more to charity than most of us will make in several lifetimes. If Dayton reverses Pawlenty’s disasterous tax policies and gets the rich to pay their fair share, he will be the first to “write his check to the treasury.”

The difference being, Pawlenty supporters actually earned their wealth and so the taxes they pay are from the sweat of their brow, not from the interest earned on their trust fund.

“and so the taxes they pay are from the sweat of their brow”

what a weak load of jingoistic crap

try something new

I apologize if the concept is so foreign to you. In the future I’ll try to use descriptions you can relate to.

“…Pawlenty supporters actually earned their wealth and so the taxes they pay are from the sweat of their brow, not from the interest earned on their trust fund.”

[Citation needed]

Chayanov, wouldn’t it be nice if we could all just throw out BS comments like Dennis?

150k for a married couple is wealthy?

Dano: Um, yes. If that’s your income, perhaps you need to get out of your bubble a bit and see how others live.

PQ, posters like Dennis remind me of how many people out there really do swallow Republican propaganda whole. What I can’t figure out is why he spends so much time here. I don’t waste my time on conservative websites, but I guess he gets a real kick out of spouting inanities here.

Jimmy,
I like my bubble. Just kidding.

@Chayanov

Oh, I’m sorry. I thought this was a non-partisan site. I guess the name must have fooled me.

Mark Dayton has so many problems, it’s difficult to know where to begin.
The people of Minnesota know that if it weren’t for his family fortune, he would never have been able to buy the U.S. Senate seat he held. Mark Dayton clearly feels guilt about his good fortune.
Time Magazine selected Dayton as one of the country’s worst senators.
I seriously doubt that Minnesota’s richest citizens are not already paying more than their fair share. The Minnesota legislature has made sure that the wealthy are punished for being successful in this state.

Wealthy liberals know that people are envious of their wealth but that a tax on income weigh more heavily on those that depend on income than those with great wealth (financial assets). But pushing the so-called ‘progressive’ income tax, they can delude the masses into thinking that they are ‘on their side’ while really keeping others from becoming wealthy as they are.

If you want to see the true colors of these wealthy liberals, just propose a tax on their wealth, rather than their income, (say 10% of the assets of everyone with more than $10 million dollars) and you’ll find they sing an entirely different tune.

MD wants to raise 4B by raising taxes on top 10%. That would average an extra $20k for 200000 taxpayers. If each one currently pays $50k in taxes (average), for each one that moves out of state you lose $70k, plus all the economic benefit of the rest of their income being spent here, which becomes income for others and also generates tax revenues, which would also be lost… The problem is that, the assumption is if you raise taxes, all other things will remain constant. In reality they won’t, people by nature will make decisions which will minimize their taxes, that’s humane nature.

Kevin H was the only post to accurately address Mr Dayton’s misguided “rich should pay their fair share” tax. NONE of us are physically confined to a particular state – even more so the wealthy, many of who already spend part of their time in other states, and could easily revise their residency AND the state which would receive their income tax. To see a Laffer curve in real life Minnesota, just let Mr Dayton have a chance to implement his ideas!

I fall into the richest of Minnesotas taxpayers. I have worked hard and my family has sacriiced for me to get to this point. My theory is some people feel guilty about what they have maybe because they didn’t earn it and want to feel better by making us all pay more taxes. The ones who should feel guilty are those who make no effort to get ahead and better themselves. I know some can’t and some don’t know how but damn I have patients who say they are disabled but then put 5000 miles on their snowmobiles over a winter. Bad back yeah sure. Rich and poor alike take advantage of the system.

it is not so easy to pick up and move a small business if it is one that has customers by local as a restaurant chiropractor or dentist we are pretty much stuck in MARX Dayton’s gulag