Posted on 05/04/2013 4:09:21 PM PDT by rhema
Four months ago when the legislative session began no one knew what to expect. It would be the first time in more than 20 years that the Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate as well as the Governors office.
Now with just three weeks before the scheduled adjournment of the 2013 legislative session the intent of the DFL lawmakers actions are clear. They are doing everything imaginable in their power to drive entrepreneurs and job creators out of Minnesota.
Just like a bunch of young cowboys driving a herd of cattle, the message these cowboys are sending to Minnesotas small business community is head em up, round em up and move em out!
If you examine the long list of anti-business proposals introduced during the last four months, it is staggering. They have proposed everything from the unionization of private child care businesses to a three dollar per hour hike in the minimum wage. They are also moving to place new fees on an array of things from the insurance policy for your home to the water you drink. In addition to a blizzard of new regulations and fees these young cowboys are determined to round up everyone with earnings above the median income level and brand them with higher taxes. Their multi-billion dollar increase in taxes includes an income tax increase for those making over $80,000, to a sales tax on clothing, taxing internet sales, a $1.60 per pack increase on cigarettes and higher taxes on beer and wine.
They have even proposed to make Minnesota the highest tax state in the nation for those with incomes over $500,000. No one should think they can escape these cowboys in their tax roundup; everyone will pay more, whether it is your cigarettes, a beer, a haircut or even your new blue jeans.
In the Democrat roundup to drive entrepreneurs out of the state, Gov. Dayton also included a provision to impose an income tax on anyone who lived outside the state for more than 60 days, just to make sure youre taxed even if you try to leave.
If you think for a moment that the current actions of DFL lawmakers wont drive business owners and upper income wage earners out of Minnesota you only need to read three recent reports.
First is the Tax Foundations 2013 report on State Business Tax Climate Index. The report ranks all 50 states on how their states tax system compares to others. In their report Minnesota currently ranks 45th. And this is before the massive DFL tax increase hammer comes down on Minnesotas small businesses. Dont forget that 90% of small business owners report their business earnings on their individual income filing.
The second report to consider is the Kauffman Foundations annual index of entrepreneurial activity. This recently released report shows Minnesota dead last for new business starts in 2012. Yes, Minnesota had fewer new business start-ups than economic power houses like Wyoming and West Virginia. Reflect for a moment that a high tax state like New York is advertising that they are cutting taxes in order to attract business to the New, New York. While here in Minnesota we are placing higher taxes on anyone who has a job.
The third report that highlights trouble ahead for Minnesotas business development is a new report by the Center of the American Experiment. The report is entitled Minnesotans on the move to lower tax states. The report shows that Minnesota loses thousands of people and their income to lower tax states every year. It states that Minnesotas tax policies directly impact economic growth and opportunity in the state.
These three studies show an alarming trend in Minnesota. They illustrate a decline in innovation and job creation that will have a devastating impact on Minnesotas long term economic growth. Some legislators think that by providing millions of taxpayer dollars to large corporations like the Mayo Clinic or the Mall of America it will sustain Minnesotas economic long term growth. What they forget is the 70% of Minnesota jobs are provided by employers with less than 100 employees.
Small business is the economic engine that drives Minnesotas economy. If Gov. Dayton and Democrat legislators succeed in driving up taxes and increasing the regulatory burden on small business, the consequence will be to head up, round up and move out, hundreds of entrepreneurs and small business owners from across the state. Today the only sound emanating from the Capitol hallways is yeehaw as DFL lawmakers continue their drive to force business owners out of Minnesota.
I live outside the state 365.25 days/year. Do I owe tax?
Both big in coal.
Cowboys? How about “rustlers” “bandits” or “vandals?” Cowboys invokes a whole different timber of man, and these democrats are anything but men! They are pussified city-boys with white frills about their necks, patting their obese guts, slavering their paunchy lips, looking for the next meal to feast upon.
They ain’t cowboys.
I was going to ask but I figured it out, DFL = Democrat Farmer Labor party. (It’s why you love Minnesota DFL).
Trouble in Lake Wobegone. I guess that they are all really above average now. Kansas and Texas beckon.
Minnesota has always had socialist leanings and tendencies. Now it is just going to the next level. I mean, it is pretty much Sweden in bloodline and mindset.
Give it ten years and Minnesota will be over-run with the muzz, just as its Scandinavian step-father. Minneapolis will become Malmo.
Who in their right mind would be away from MINNESSSSSSSSSSSSSOTA for 60 days and decide to go there!
Does this apply to ILLEGAL MIGRANT FARM WORKERS?
One of the few states I never visited and now it’s off the list! Oh well maybe! can cross it short fashion!
Lake WoeBeHere
DFL=Dumb For Life
Paging Rick Perry...
Again the upper income Al Gore/Unabomber wing of white democrats strikes again. Why? Look at the disparity of who will pay this tax:
In a study conducted on behalf of the New York State Department of Health, it revealed that low-income smokers (those in households making under $30,000), spent an average of 23.6% of their annual household income on cigarettes, compared to 2.2% for smokers in households making over $60,000.[15]
Cigarette taxes in the United States
If Republicans want an issue they can win on with the lower middle class and poor, cigarette taxes are a big one.
The Democrat Party wasn’t near as extreme left as Minnesotans, so they started their own party that just associates with the national Democrats.
What surprises me is how many people think it is all some kind of misunderstanding, rather than an intentional piece of a larger grand plan.
The ratcheting up of outright contempt for small business owners from state and local governments, the IRS, Federal and state regulatory agencies, and even the MSM since January, 2009 strains credulity. One feels that they clap their hands in glee every time another small business goes under.
Well Minnesota,—don’t feel like the Lone Ranger.
Our boy O’Malley and his Democrats are like Ali baba and the Forty thieves here in Maryland. They charge me a flush tax to crap in my own septic system and now have imposed a rain tax for every time it rains, not to mention an 80% tax increase on fuel.
And my Governor thinks he can run for President. LMAO
He wont get many votes from Marylanders.
1/3rd of the Millionaires in Maryland have already run out of state, and the others are packing.
ping
BTTT
“Trouble in Lake Wobegone. I guess that they are all really above average now. Kansas and Texas beckon.”
Crap... Folks are already moving here (Texas) faster than we can build houses and roads. Got an idea. Not trying to be un-neighborly or anything like that, but why don’t you good folks take back your own state? Maybe team up with Michigan and Illinois conservatives and kick some @$$. Those inner city punks can’t fight. Heck, they even turn their guns sideways so you know they can’t hit nothing.....
They seem to forget wi is a short drive from Minneapolis. I see cig sales up in Hudson and superior.
We’ll take ‘em. But, only if they buy some land, get some horses, goats, cattle; and if they don’t have any guns we’ll take ‘em down to Cabela’s.
Like with California’s simpletons, you can only hope the people who flee Minnesota are not the same moronic scumbags who voted the Democrats into office.
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