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Minnesota's leftists want to tax non-residents and raise spirits tax by 300% because they CAN
Coach is Right ^ | 3/25/13 | Kevin "Coach" Collins

Posted on 03/25/2013 8:57:51 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax

When they get complete control of your life, liberals don’t just sit and smile, they use that power and control to remind you who is in charge. They hunger and thirst for power and control and are restrained only by their imaginations as they plot to run our lives.

Minnesota’s Democrats are good examples of what life is like when liberals are given total control of a government.

Earlier this year, while lamenting how many of his subjects escape to Florida and other warmer places each winter to avoid the cold, Democrat Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton had an idea to recover the tax money they take with them each December.

Dayton proposed a “snowbird tax” and...

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: liberalism; markdayton; minnesota; taxes

1 posted on 03/25/2013 8:57:51 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Oldpuppymax

Raising taxes gives them the power to grant exemptions.


2 posted on 03/25/2013 9:01:31 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Oldpuppymax

Any doubt Democrats are communists? They will and generally have destroyed our Constitutional way of life.


3 posted on 03/25/2013 9:07:42 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Oldpuppymax

California tried taxing thr retirement of people that had moved to another state upon retirement. ERISA struck it down. They still try to confiscate taxes from people still working that moved, trying to prove they still live there if they even go for a visit.


4 posted on 03/25/2013 9:11:46 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Oldpuppymax

Drive us to drink then tax us for drowning our sorrows.


5 posted on 03/25/2013 9:23:38 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: TurboZamboni
At least the Russian Communists were smarter than the Minnesota variety; they made vodka cheaper than safe drinking water. A perpetually drunk population offers less resistance.
6 posted on 03/25/2013 9:30:24 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Oldpuppymax

Minnesotans, make it a one-way trip next time.


7 posted on 03/25/2013 9:35:42 AM PDT by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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To: Logical me

Joseph McCarthy and the Birchers were right.


8 posted on 03/25/2013 9:40:26 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: Oldpuppymax

Money is to government as heroin and cocaine and methamphetamine are to drug addicts.


9 posted on 03/25/2013 9:45:54 AM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Raising taxes gives them the power to grant exemptions.

You've gotten right to the heart of the psychology. It's Ayn Rand's "Aristocracy of Pull" come to life.

10 posted on 03/25/2013 10:09:27 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: Oldpuppymax

This is a silly question, but would that include illegals?


11 posted on 03/25/2013 10:30:09 AM PDT by ABQHispConservative (Only fake Christians are Democrats.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

Non-Citizens getting Taxed?? If I get a tax bill from MN for my FL house, I’ll tell them to STICK IT WHERE the SUN DON’T SHINE!


12 posted on 03/25/2013 10:56:30 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (More Republicans stayed home then the margin of victory of O's Win...)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

My thots too...

Looks like an opportunity to create another classification of “law-breakers”...


13 posted on 03/25/2013 11:38:10 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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