Posted on 09/14/2010 7:51:14 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
Armed with several charts and graphs, Democrat Mark Dayton on Monday sought to make a brainy, philosophical and "moral" case for his plan to increase taxes on the wealthiest Minnesotans if he is elected governor in November.
"I'm going to use the powers of intellectual persuasion," he said at the beginning of his remarks at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. "Taxes, I believe, are the lubricant for the machinery of our democracy."
And so began a roughly 20-minute speech that featured Dayton guiding the audience through several handouts with statistics on tax burdens and harkening back to the philosophy of his family, the owners of the former Dayton's department store chain.
The Humphrey Institute
Gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton at the State Capitol Wednesday August 11, 2010. (Pioneer Press: Chris Polydoroff)will host similar events for Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer on Wednesday and Independence Party candidate Tom Horner on Monday. All three candidates face the challenge of how to close the state's projected $5.8 billion gap between its revenues and its expenses. A cornerstone of Dayton's plan is increasing state income taxes on the wealthiest 10 percent of Minnesotans.
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"That money you earned? The things you worked hard to achieve?
They should belong to someone else -- someone more deserving than you -- and I should determine who that someone else ought to be -- because I'm a lot smarter than you."
There is no moral case for robbery.
All of your things,,are belong to us now!
Governments are instituted to secure unalienable rights. Taking peoples property for other purposes is immoral. If we do not have the right to the fruit of our labor, we are slaves.
Wasn't the main reason this doofus went into politics was because he couldn't handle a job as a stock boy at Target, a family owned business?
At one time, this doofus was the dumbest member of the U.S. Senate with a penis. Then he retired and Pennsylvania elected Bob Casey, Jr.
Ask NY how that is working out for them. Does Mark know that people who make that kind of money can leave his state?
Bingo.
No.
He flunked Shoe Sales 101 at Daytons in Edina.
What about the "machinery" itself? Does he not realize that for over 200 years, America's constitutional philosophy of freedom of individual enterprise was the "engine" (machinery) which brought opportunity, innovation, prosperity and plenty to both Americans and the world?
The by-product was more liberty for more individuals than had been achieved in the history of the world. That liberty was a light to hundreds of millions of oppressed people who fled the kind of "lubricating" he admires to enjoy freedom in America.
His so-called "intellectual" approach is in sharp contrast to that of the Founders. James Madison, known as the "father" of the Constitution itself observed that the great achievements in America could be attributed to the influence of a "benign" government. What we have today is the opposite, with people like this man calling for "cancerous" growth of government, higher "takings" from the earnings of achievers, and redistribution to those who do not produce.
When you rob Peter to pay Paul all you end up with is a sore Peter.
TRANSLATION: Big Brother may legitimately confiscate anything he wishes from the little people.
JFK , December 14, 1962:
"In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now. The experience of a number of European countries and Japan have borne this out. This country's own experience with tax reduction in 1954 has borne this out. And the reason is that only full employment can balance the budget, and tax reduction can pave the way to that employment. The purpose of cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus."
nice to see he reads George Lackoff in the HuffPo and actually takes his advice...
Poor follow shows up at a battle of wits totally unarmed.
Poor follow shows up at a battle of wits totally unarmed.
So discouraging that this pixie even has a chance of winning.
He would have more luck using The Force.
What is ethical about the state discriminating among the people on economic grounds?
Whatever happened to equality for all?
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