Strib Letter: Pay More Taxes
Paging Jason Lewis! Minnesota's Mr. Right to the white courtesy phone!
Apparently there is no problem with taxes in Minnesota... other than the problem that we do not pay enough taxes.
That according to a reader of the Star-Tribune.
Say Tom... if you were paid $50,000 annually, but you had expenses for $75,000 would you simply say you were not paid enough and demand that your ungratful employer cough up the money?
After all, it isn't your fault that you spend more than you earn, right?
Additional insight gems from Tom Obert:
Another Tom Obert letter to the Strib.
Anti-Strib (specifically Brent) on a Tom Obert letter to the Strib. (Tom Obert doesn't understand that roads are used for the market much more than Governor Turnbuckle's light-rail... unless Mr. Obert often sees folks hauling cargo on the people-killing Hiawatha line.)
More from Tom Obert.
Apparently there is no problem with taxes in Minnesota... other than the problem that we do not pay enough taxes.
That according to a reader of the Star-Tribune.
Under-funding for the common good has to stopUh, yeah.
Thank you, John S. Adams. Your Dec. 8 column on budget planning should be required reading by the governor, the Legislature and the antithetically named Taxpayers League.
For too long now, since President Ronald Reagan nationally, and Govs. Jesse Ventura and Tim Pawlenty at the state level, our leaders have promoted tax cuts and "no new taxes" as the utopian ideal. Actually, the reverse is true.
Ironically, the people most likely to trumpet American exceptionalism are the very same people who do not want to fund America. At some point, for example, the absence of additional public funding for our colleges and universities will price our future doctors, engineers, et al., out of the market at a time when places like China and India are becoming increasingly competitive in these areas. And the idea at the state level that we must continually cut taxes for business-friendly purposes has always been wrong on its face. If it were true, all businesses long ago would have moved to the low-tax states. In actuality, it's the higher-tax states that attract business because it shows the electorate is willing to finance and maintain the infrastructure -- from education to transportation -- necessary for the operation of successful businesses.
If we continue to under-fund for the common good to the extent we have for the last 40 years, we can be sure that American (or Minnesota) exceptionalism will be relegated to the dustbin of history in the not too distant future.
TOM OBERT, ALEXANDRIA, MINN.
Say Tom... if you were paid $50,000 annually, but you had expenses for $75,000 would you simply say you were not paid enough and demand that your ungratful employer cough up the money?
After all, it isn't your fault that you spend more than you earn, right?
Additional insight gems from Tom Obert:
Another Tom Obert letter to the Strib.
Anti-Strib (specifically Brent) on a Tom Obert letter to the Strib. (Tom Obert doesn't understand that roads are used for the market much more than Governor Turnbuckle's light-rail... unless Mr. Obert often sees folks hauling cargo on the people-killing Hiawatha line.)
More from Tom Obert.
Labels: Star-Tribune Letter, Taxes
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