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Tom Anderson

Coon Rapids, MN
Commenter for
4 years 34 weeks

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Posted on 01/12/13 at 10:25 pm in response to Dayton’s eagerly awaited budget proposal touted as a ‘historical shift’

At least Sen. Bakk has sort of specific goals although there are no monetary figures.

Posted on 01/12/13 at 10:36 pm in response to How the mortgage interest deduction hurts our cities

How do I benefit by taking out a $300,000 mortgage, paying whatever five-figure annual mortgage payment to get a $5000 tax deduction?

Posted on 01/10/13 at 07:28 pm in response to As session starts, will Dayton, DFL raise taxes on Minnesota's rich?

That was easy.

Posted on 01/09/13 at 11:14 pm in response to DFL legislators, even with full control, will find plenty to fight about

Senator Marty failed to mention that the DFLers also all voted the same way 99.9% of the time, against the GOP. Hopefully one or two people in the new majorities will break ranks on some meaningful bill like the "Override Six" of a few years ago. Odds are, when push comes to shove, everyone does what Thissen and Bakk tell them to do and the Governor signs it.

Posted on 01/08/13 at 10:03 pm in response to House DFL opens session with priority of paying back $550 million to schools

The promises were to return ALL the money and the budget would be balanced without shifts and gimmicks.

Posted on 01/08/13 at 10:13 pm in response to It is time to repeal the Second Amendment





That leaves less than half for everything else, of which the defense is only a portion.
Sadly, only a handful of countries decide who gets atomic weapons and it is unlikely that you will be granted one before whole other nations get theirs.

Posted on 01/03/13 at 07:40 pm in response to Spam-maker buys Skippy peanut butter

What other options should/could the school exercise? Make every other student drop and give them 20 pushups? The teachers?

I too would read a local article about the bloat going on at the U of M. I'm not sure the WSJ article even mentioned paying other schools to not play football with us...

Posted on 01/02/13 at 10:47 pm in response to Fuel taxes: the new third rail of public policy

Technically they may not have lost an election for enacting a gas tax increase (the Legislature did that) but not all of them were in office two years later primarily for their support of the increase.

Still, even though the Governor won't campaign for it, he would more than likely sign a large gas tax increase sent to him by the strong progressive majorities in both house. This exercise, while helping the State transportation system could also serve as a test for Ms. Donahoe's...

Posted on 01/03/13 at 07:48 pm in response to Peterson burned by final farm bill policy and process

Farm Bill contains food stamp money. Who came up with that idea?

If we addresssed our obesity epidemic it might help all of our starving people.

Posted on 12/21/12 at 11:55 pm in response to Despite Dayton's Second Amendment view, Minnesota could have tougher gun laws

1. Define adequate in a manner that will satisfy the SCOTUS.
2. See #1
3. Kind of hinders law enforcement doesn't it? Define "in use".
4. Govt. paid for? (Discriminates otherwise)
5. Right to privacy?
6. Restricts commerce between consenting adults, will certainly lead to most everyone becoming a "gun dealer".
7. As long as there is no limit on the number of magazines, have at it.
8. The government is broke and the rich won't have any money left to...