Remember a time when if this photo were to represent the Democrats, the person would've been wearing steel toed boots? My how times have changed.
Posted on 07/12/2005 5:37:36 PM PDT by rhema
"See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay... ."
French statesman and philosopher Frederic Bastiat, "The Law," 1850.
Just what is it with the Minnesota left and this obsession for taking other people's money? Every budget cycle it's the same old song and dance. Hiding behind those golden parachutes of Great Society liberalism -- education and health care -- the DFL and the Star Tribune renew their demand for more and more in taxes to placate an inscrutable appetite for redistributing wealth.
Forget about the particulars of the latest budget "crisis" for a moment. It was, as always, merely a ruse to raise more revenue. For no one in the real world thinks that a $30 billion budget in a state of only 5 million residents (North Carolina has a $32 billion biennial budget serving well over 8 million) represents anything other than a "spending problem." No one paying the taxes instead of consuming them would dare suggest that education is being shortchanged when K-12 spending now totals a whopping $10,162 per pupil, according to the Department of Education. And no Minnesota family paying for their own health care would consider it Draconian to ask able-bodied, childless adults to wean themselves off MinnesotaCare -- especially since Tennessee's Democratic governor is now demanding the same thing on a much larger scale.
No, that's not what the biennial budget battle was all about. It was, however, about the DFL's own man of the cloth, Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson, ignoring one of the seven deadly sins
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"Tax the rich" always ends up meaning tax the "high income earners" but they're not necessarily the same people.
Even now, know-it-all Minnesota liberals are thinking that with a "fair" ratio of $30 billion largesse per 5 million people, those extra three million North Carolinians must be having an awful time subsisting on only $2 billion.
Remember a time when if this photo were to represent the Democrats, the person would've been wearing steel toed boots? My how times have changed.
I am happy to see Mr. Right still cares about MN
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