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will lynott

st paul, MN
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Posted on 07/18/11 at 08:03 pm in response to Racinos might still be in the running in budget negotiations

Senjem is a republican. As such, he does not want to tax the rich, who are his benefactors. He'd rather tax the poor and the other "lower" classes who dream of one day hitting the jackpot, but whom everyone knows are doomed to keep putting their money down and losing.

That's what a racino is, folks. It's a tax on the poor, the people who can least afford it. It's money down a rathole. Just visit a casino sometime and look at the sad faced gamblers who know in their hearts they'll...

Posted on 07/19/11 at 10:47 am in response to Racinos might still be in the running in budget negotiations

#9, if we're going to leave it up to people to make all their own decisions, let's go all the way. Let's decriminalize crack and methamphetamine. Let's take down those pesky traffic lights. If people want to drive drunk, who cares?

You don't see rich people in those casinos. You see desperate poor people who in many cases are gambling the rent money hoping to make a killing.

Damn straight I have a problem with dropping the tax on the rich, and I will not move on. It's a...

Posted on 07/19/11 at 07:47 pm in response to Racinos might still be in the running in budget negotiations

#10, trying to put words in my mouth is an old, lame, and crusty debating tactic. Nice try, no banana.

Indian gaming has one redeeming feature. If you've seen, as I have, the grinding poverty on the res, the preteen pregnancies, the alcoholism, the stratospheric tobacco use, the one-parent families with a child at the head, the dead cars and other junk in the unkempt front yards, at rates far beyond any other demographic, you would (I hope) be rethinking your scorn for the Indian...

Posted on 07/18/11 at 10:20 am in response to Bracing for the next round of LGA cuts and property tax hikes

The other day Kurt Zellers was reminded that the "deal he was signing on to is another hit to schools. His reply? "Yes, they're being led onto the ice. But they won't break through."

Matt Dean's take on the deal? "But the most important thing is that it doesn't raise taxes."

Zellers and his crowd have been kissing off education for years. Now we're bracing for another round of property tax INCREASES (pay attention, Dean)

Cynicism beyond words. Protect those rich...

Posted on 07/18/11 at 08:46 pm in response to GOP leaders struggling for votes to pass budget deal

"Will, do you depend on other people's money to survive?

#6 sorry to break your toy, but we all do, including you.

Deal with it.

Posted on 07/15/11 at 07:11 pm in response to Some questions -- and answers -- about Minnesota budget deal and what happens next

The Rs have always blindly followed their leaders. They'll do it now, too.

Posted on 07/15/11 at 07:43 pm in response to Some questions -- and answers -- about Minnesota budget deal and what happens next

So, Sutton knows defeat when it's staring him in the face. I wouldn't have given him credit.

Posted on 07/18/11 at 08:20 pm in response to Some questions -- and answers -- about Minnesota budget deal and what happens next

"Not only are the T party people willing to not tax they are also willing to let the state infrastructure deteriorate by wasting our bonding capacity for short term fixes. That will cost us more in interest as our bond rating falls.

How dumb is that."

Apparently, #16, just dumb enough for wingnuts. Although I don't think they've hit bottom yet. Trash the state, so what? At least, as House majority leader Matt Dean has said, "we don't have to raise taxes [on the rich.]"...

Posted on 07/15/11 at 03:55 pm in response to It's a Blogapalooza over the Minnesota budget deal

Can't believe I forgot this one:

* Spending is going up by $1.4 billion more than the "not a penny more" nonsense. Wow. After months of chest-beating insistence that we would be spending "only what's in the checkbook," who "caved" on that one?

The fact that they're willing to borrow from the future to do that and thus protect at all costs their rich friends from having to pitch in with the rest of us only further diminshes them.

Posted on 07/15/11 at 07:38 pm in response to It's a Blogapalooza over the Minnesota budget deal

BD, poor BD.

Besotted with the notion that it was good fiscal policy for Jesse "The Thin-Skinned Body" to piddle away the surplus he inherited, aided and abetted by tp, by foolishly slashing taxes and issuing nothingburger "jessechecks."

Jeez, man, wake up! What led us to this trainwreck is the decade that followed that disastrous period. Constant structural deficit. Desperate raids on one-time pots of money to balance it. Illegal unallotment when that ran out. Loss of the...