Dayton renews call for higher taxes on the wealthy

But I thought only Republicans could quote Bible verses to make their point? Isn’t that a law or something????????????????

‘To whomsoever much has been given, of him shall much be required.’

But Mark, that refers to people like you who were GIVEN their wealth, not to people who’ve actually, you know, earned it.

I appreciate that Dayton wants to increase education funding. I do too. However, he warned during the campaign that there would be painful cuts in the state budget. DFL legislators seeking reelection were saying the same thing. He’s been saying putting together his budget proposal has been an awful task. All I’m really hoping for is that cuts are kept small, and the state’s wealthy finally state paying their share. That the richest have the lowest tax burden and the poorest have the biggest should be humiliating even for conservatives.

The richest have the lowest burden when it comes to buying a loaf of bread too and the poorest have the biggest. That’s called math. The only people who should be humiliated by that are government employees who waste it.

Why does it cost $16,421 to educate a child in the Saint Paul Public School system, for example, and less than half that in the private schools? ($624 million / 38000 students)

Open your eyes, Dennis. Private schools are very selective in who they will accept to teach; I doubt they deal with children having special needs or from dysfunctional households or households where English is not the first language …

These “pesky” kids will still be there regardless of state funding. If state funding is reduced, look for your St. Paul property taxes to go up to make up the shortfall.

Minnesota has increased spending for decades; there has never been enough money for health care, for education, for transportation, for the elderly, for the children or for the socialists.

Property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes and user fees fall far short of satisfying Minnesota’s rapacious appetite for spending. This appeal to tax the rich leads only to further rancor and divisiveness.

Minnesota must stop this madness before its citizens start voting with their feet.

This whole economic collapse is the fault of the Baby Boomers’ slash-and-burn, me first/me only attitudes. There is a reason why the generations after the baby boom are of a more collectivist bent: WE HAVE TO BE. We have to band together to protect ourselves from the Baby Boomers. We have to band together to have a life that’s worth living because the Boomers have hung on way too long, are consuming far too many resources (the carbon footprint of a Baby Boomer is something like five to ten times larger than that of members of Generation X and the Millennial generation), and are now in the process of endangering the planet on the way out, believing that they have the right to bring down the curtain behind them when they leave.

NO. You had the responsibility to leave us a planet in better condition than when you found it, and you screwed that up entirely.

My prescription for the Baby Boom generation: Commit suicide en masse. Leave the world to people who want to leave it to our great-great-great grandchildren. Go away. We’ve had enough of you.

Actually, Katie, the reason the younger generation is a bunch of collectivists is because you’re not far enough removed yet from the leftist indoctrination spewed by your college instructors.

After a few years of living in the real world, getting married, having kids, earning a decent paycheck, paying a mortgage, you “evolve” like most of the rest of us have.

I was an LBJ campaign volunteer and I voted for Jimmy Carter. So there’s hope for you yet.

@Dennis

Actually I become more Liberal as i get older. As I have kids, and more mortgage, as I live the “traditional a-typical” lifestyle of a stay at home mom. I become more evolved to the point of understanding that there is no one way, and if anything the idea of it takes a village is very much the way to parent. To be present, involved, and collectivily acting for the better good of the whole. To put my selfish ways aside and to realize that my life is not counted on how much money I make or how many things I own, but how I help, give, and produce.

The corner stone of my Moral Structure is equality and civil justice for all humans. My religion is one of Science and progression and peace, and Love.

my children will remember how I stayed up for hours helping them do something they wanted, and talked, and laughed at their jokes, and seriously took their opinions into notion, even when they differ from mine, without indoctrination, and oppression.

For someone who claims to be worldly and mature, Dennis sure seems to believe that a livable country and a livable world are the creations of magic pixies.

Magick doesn’t work that way…

Marie, I doubt doubt nor criticize your views. You’re a liberal. Most women are because of primordal instinct. That’s why they call the democrat party the “mommy party” because its members believe as you do .. .even the men. heh

And with his mighty display of misogyny and contempt, Dennis once again demonstrates why his opinion is worth precisely nil.

This makes sense to me.. Why not tax the TAX CHEATS??? I have been taking it up the a$$ for the last 8 years of Gov. T Baggs…

Katie, where’s my contempt in calling Marie a liberal? Where’s the contempt in calling the democrat party the “mommy party?” Marie described her life as a loving mom, and it’s totally natural that a woman would feel that way because, as I said, it comes from primordial instinct to nurture her young.

And although her instincts and philosophies are correct in nurturing a family, they’re counterproductive when used to govern a free society.

Dennis, if you think nobody but you can read your posting history, you’re delusional. You’ve used womanhood as interchangable with weakness pretty freely. Also, “biological imperatives” are a very poor excuse, and were used in the past and are often used in the present by your conservative brethren to strip women of power and agency. There is very little difference between male and female brains and virtually all differences in behavior can be traced to social indoctrination.