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Greg Kapphahn

Alexandria, MN
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2 years 48 weeks

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Posted on 04/17/13 at 02:25 pm in response to Gun rights in the 1780s and today

The obvious solution to the problem of too much damage (especially mass murders and far too many individual suicides and accidental shootings of family members),...

is completely unacceptable to our most gun-dependent friends and neighbors,...

because their need for their guns is NOT based on any rational consideration (despite their making pseudo-rational arguments),...

but based on their psychologically dysfunctional need to have one or more firearms in their...

Posted on 04/17/13 at 09:59 am in response to GOP accuses DEED of 'extravagant waste'

on alcohol i.e. the price and profits of companies that produce it,...

have gone up since 1987?

How much are the CEOs of alcohol-producing companies being paid now as compared to 1987?

How much are shareholders soaking up in dividends and other perks?

How much have alcohol-producing companies and their owners/managers benefited from tax cuts and tax breaks?

Unless we know how much the alcohol-producers have extracted from their customers in private tax...

Posted on 04/17/13 at 01:26 pm in response to GOP accuses DEED of 'extravagant waste'

They do not mind in the least

LYING THROUGH THEIR TEETH

to try to score a political point.

Posted on 04/16/13 at 05:29 pm in response to Really? E-bingo games are shut down over technical glitch

Has an EXTREMELY limited group of people he "knows." Either that or he believes that his own attitudes and the attitudes of those who surround him at New Salem Missionary Baptist Church are exempt from examination for bigotry and bias,...

because they base those attitudes on the seven verses of the Bible which can questionably be interpreted to address the issue of homosexuality,...

while they earnestly ignore the 700+ verses that speak of God's love and/or command God's...

Posted on 04/16/13 at 11:49 am in response to The Second Amendment is a mess

You're mixing apples with cumquats. The constitution was written in 18th-Century English. The Bible was written in Hebrew (which goes back 3000+ years), and First-Century Aramaic and Greek.

The King James version, based considerably on Tyndale's earlier version (for which Tyndale was burned at the stake),...

was an attempt to translate the Vulgate translation (accomplished by the Catholic Church which used the oldest sources it could then find to translate the Hebrew, Greek...

Posted on 04/16/13 at 04:59 pm in response to Study: Three years of gay marriage = $42 million in revenue

Far too many of our nation's largest banking, investment, and business leaders can't do math, either.

But they sure are good at selling worthless pie-in-the-sky, sure-fire, risk free "investment opportunities" to each other,...

right up until they all figure out that everyone ELSE was lying about what they were selling just as much as they, themselves had been,...

at which point they'll crash the system again.

So, since it seems to be to the benefit of the 1% NOT...

Posted on 04/11/13 at 09:31 am in response to Miffed legislators try to tackle both Vikings stadium and Mayo Clinic complications

Regarding the Vikings... Why NOT make up the financing deficit with a surcharge on player salaries and on the overall income of the Vikings organization? What OTHER highly-profitable business gets away with asking the citizens of the state to substantially build and equip a completely new set of facilities for them every 30 years or so?

Meanwhile, although Mayo is clearly an important medical facility and does excellent work, each and every hospital and hospital system across the...

Posted on 04/11/13 at 09:07 am in response to Dead: Sanford takeover of Fairview

Can we get a countervailing add campaign up spelling out the results of the most recent tax incident study which spells out what these poor, beleaguered, "job creators" pay in total taxes, as a portion of their income (several percentage points lower),...

as opposed to the rest of us,...

and making it clear how rapidly their incomes have skyrocketed over the past few decades while the rest of us have stayed the same or gone backward?

We might even mention how many...

Posted on 04/11/13 at 09:44 am in response to Dead: Sanford takeover of Fairview

The privatization pipedream of handing over a publicly-created and funded asset to a private entity,...

thereby diverting the benefits derived from resources originally contributed by the public at large,...

into the pockets of highly-paid board members and executives of a private corporation,...

is nothing short of the bastardization and complete corruption of the original purposes behind the creation of the University of Minnesota Hospital in the first place,...

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Posted on 04/09/13 at 09:13 am in response to Lawmakers should close Minnesota's corporate tax-haven loophole

Rep. Mary Franson,

regarding these loopholes, she replied with feigned (I hope it was feigned) ignorance and replied with a request that I spell out for her what loopholes I was talking about.

I replied with a link to this article.

Out here, in Alexandria, we have a wide variety of local manufacturing firms which are, in effect, paying higher corporate income taxes because our state's largest, most profitable firms,...

those with the most outrageously highly-...