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Bob Petersen

Blaine, MN
Commenter for
1 year 22 weeks

Recent Comments

Posted on 02/20/13 at 09:47 am in response to MN GOP, stifled by new rules, offers 159 amendments

If you change the rules, the game changes and the players alter their strategies. The DFL, now in charge because the Repubs did not play out the last election very well to put lightly, is now doing the usual by making things 'better' for them. Why wouldn't they? Each party does it like the article says. But the DFL should know better than to think the Repubs will just lay down without expressing their voice, which is what they were elected to do. The root of this issue is what the DFL...

Posted on 01/30/13 at 09:16 am in response to Cities and counties with local sales taxes stand to rake in extra dough under Dayton plan

The fleecing will continue.

Posted on 01/23/13 at 09:11 am in response to Dayton budget would boost spending and increase high-income taxes

You forget that Pawlenty had a DFL legislature always against him and wanting to spend more and more. Pawlenty actually kept that spending own to about twice the rate of inflation, not the more than double-digit increases the DFL always hollered for. Also, if the spending line wasn't kept down, our budget right now would be much bigger and the $1.1B upcoming deficit would be several billion more if the DFL had their way.

Posted on 01/23/13 at 09:16 am in response to Dayton budget would boost spending and increase high-income taxes

Dayton has shown what he is looking for. No surprise. But to keep taking and taking from everyone and to add on what the federal government and our president wants to do, we are never going to get out of the hole. California, Illinois, and New York are having budget crises and are looking to bankruptcy because they have done what Dayton and the DFL want to do. We are headed down that same path if we keep spending more of everyone's money. Hopefully, with the cautious tone the DFL...

Posted on 01/14/13 at 10:44 am in response to Dayton’s eagerly awaited budget proposal touted as a ‘historical shift’

Remember, it is the high earners that get taxed to no end. The wealthy have their money. If you think about it, a punitive tax structure actually keeps the rich to stay rich and is a tremendous barrier for those that have little or none to have the ability to be rich. Many of the wealthy are high income earners. But these are the ones that say it is okay to tax them more because they already have more than enough to be forever comfortable. It is the small business owners and middle...

Posted on 01/07/13 at 09:13 am in response to 2013 legislative to-do list

We have had a bloated government and the only answer given is more money...okay, accountability is also desired here. But government is never accountable so why start now. The only way to make them accountable is to start to starve them.

Posted on 12/11/12 at 09:28 am in response to Minnesota leaders off to a rocky start at legislative ‘preview’

Hann's beligerance shows that the problem with Republicans is not what their ideas are, but that they can't get the right message out. We have a governor who already has his own money and wants everyone else to pay more so they can't be rich like him. Never mind that our state gets record number of revenues year after year, has higher spending increases than inflation and population growth, looks to have some extra money this year which they want to blow on projects and not pay back IOUs,...

Posted on 12/06/12 at 03:14 pm in response to What Minnesota's Republicans want in a 'fiscal-cliff' deal

So because the government can't figure out how to save money or have decent programs, they should deserve to get more from someone else? That's bunk. Look at the so-call 'hailed' stimulus. The government spent, what, $300k for each created or 'saved' job. You can get 7 median level paid jobs for that from people like this business owner. What's more effective? Pretty easy math.

The big problem is that everyone is so tired of government getting more and more money. Instead of...

Posted on 11/08/12 at 09:26 am in response to After winning back Legislature, triumphant DFL takes care not to ‘overstep’

The wealthy will always have their share whether you have higher taxes or not. Once you have money, you can't tax it except at death.

And past history and the many issuances of the CBO (for national economy) has shown that much higher taxes on the highest income earners are only a drop in the bucket.

You have to look at Minnesota's spending. Even under Pawlenty it increased much higher than inflation. Now we have a guv who already has his inherited money who immediately says...

Posted on 10/25/12 at 08:24 am in response to Duluth TV station pulls DFL's anti-Cravaack ad

People go where the jobs are. More proof that this state is more and more hostile to having good jobs with so many people that want to tax us to death...and beyond.