Posted on 08/13/2024 2:45:58 PM PDT by willk
In recent weeks, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz burst from relative obscurity to co-headlining the Democratic presidential ticket. Walz’s career rocket launch was fueled by his cutting political rhetoric, folksy midwestern charm, jovial dad vibes, and progressive principles and accomplishments.
Before Walz was governor and a vice presidential candidate, he wore many hats. He was a congressman, a high school teacher, a union member, a command sergeant major in the Army National Guard, a state-championship-winning high school football coach. While not as dramatic as the political transformation of his electoral counterpart JD Vance, Walz too had a political transformation over the last decade. As governor, Walz established a more progressive record than his time as a congressman, including on gun control and fighting climate change.
As governor, Walz prioritized economic issues — including greater government support for families and children — which have also been a top priority for Kamala Harris. It’s feasible that Walz’s selection could be a signal of the policies that Harris, if elected president, will try to implement during her administration.
As governor, Walz prioritized increasing the economic security of kids.
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Wat “dad vibes”? The guy acts way too fruity to be any kind of father figure.
And I hope they lose every cent in public funding.
A 60-year-old native-born, non-disabled white-male American who owns no stocks, bonds or real estate, with net worth less than half the average for his age... yeah, that’s a guy with a mind for economics? Uh, no.
This guy passed the most regressive death tax I know of. People have left the state over it. He’s a communist.
The economic mind of Tim Walz.
Obviously.
In case there is any doubt about NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/12/g-s1-16698/trump-musk-x-interview
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conference
If we ever take the House and Senate again, the first thing we need to do is shut down NPR and PBS. Send all the hos to the welfare line. That crap show is supposed to be unbiased. They haven’t started that yet and they’ve been around for many many moons. Way too many.
Gov. Tim Walz Raised Taxes as Most Governors Cut Them
Another clue to Harris’ unspoken policies
August 6, 2024, By: Jared Walczak, taxfoundation.org
Most states have cut taxes at least once since 2021, with a renewed emphasis on tax competition taking hold in red and blue states alike. Twenty-eight states have cut individual income tax rates, fifteen states have cut corporate income tax rates, and other states have cut sales tax rates or focused on property tax relief. Under Gov. Tim Walz (DFL), Minnesota has been an outlier, one of the few states to raise taxes in recent years—despite the state posting large surpluses.
With her selection of Minnesota Gov. Walz as her running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen from a pool of prospective candidates—sitting governors—that seems obvious but has not historically been well-represented in the second slot on presidential tickets. Former President Donald Trump’s selection of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Sen. John McCain’s choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin may suggest that governors are gaining ground as vice presidential nominees, but before that, stretching back a century, the only others are Spiro T. Agnew, Earl Warren, and John W. Bricker.
Governors bring executive experience. They also bring policy records that are more concrete than those of legislators, in the sense that a governor’s signature or veto makes (or prevents) law in a way that one vote in Congress rarely does. Observers will doubtless scrutinize Walz’s record as governor to get a sense of what policies he may favor at the federal level and what that may say about the Harris-Walz ticket.
Whereas other potential running mates charted moderate courses on state taxation, with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro advocating for the acceleration of cuts to the Commonwealth’s high-rate corporate income tax and signing legislation improving its structure (specifically by better aligning treatment of net operating losses with national standards), and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed a bill authorizing an individual income tax rate cut (albeit after vetoing a larger prior-year package that set those rate cuts in motion), Walz has presided over several tax increases, focused on businesses and high earners.
This makes Walz an outlier among contemporary governors, though perhaps not an outlier in his own state, which has a tradition of progressive fiscal policy that runs from the early 20th-century Progressive era through such progressive stalwarts as Eugene McCarthy, Walter Mondale, and Paul Wellstone.
Under Walz, Minnesota became the only state to impose a surtax on the long-term capital gain income and other net investment income of high earners (all other states tax long-term capital gains at ordinary income tax rates or even preferential rates).
Walz also signed legislation partially phasing out the benefit of standard and itemized deductions for high earners, and later had to sign legislation fixing a drafting error that accidentally reduced the standard deduction for all taxpayers in what would have been an unintended $350 million tax increase.
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They neglected to say he is a bullying, anti-American Commie.
Walz has long-billed himself as a retired Command Sergeant Major —
when, in reality, he was demoted to the lower rank of master sergeant.
Did Walz collect retirement pay as a Command Sergeant
Major — or as the lower ranked master sergeant?
Call Congress
(202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard operator.
article trying to show a meager walz living off a teachers pension , no assets, no investments, no business ventures, he’s just a regular guy like me and you.
I did a guesstimate of the annual retirement income of Tampax Timmy A-Walz and his wife:
$100,000 US House pension $ 60,000 Social Security [2 people] $ 40,000 annual compounded interest [403(b) - 2 accounts] $ 40,000 gubernatorial pension $ 30,000 National Guard retirement pay ======== $270,000 total annually
Not bad scratch, if you can get it. $135 an hour, retired.
We won't even talk about their gold-plated Cadillac health care packages.
Plus, they sold their house and are living in a rental house while the Minnesota governor's mansion is being renovated.
The biggest tax ticks ever spotted in the wild...
Walz is Harris’ forever grinning lap dog slobbering at her feet.........
A hefty govt VP pension awaits together with all those tax-paid pensions he’s collecting now:
Ntl Guard pension, federal Congressional pension, state teachers pension, state governor’s pension.
Guy could be pulling in maybe $300,000 annually......
sucking off the backs of struggling taxpayers.
No wonder he’s always smiling.
It drives me crazy when at Christmas dinner my ex and my daughter say with all seriousness they listen to NPR as it is a straight unbiased news source. In the interest of not causing a scene on Christmas and disrupting the family gathering I hold my tongue. Later on I have a scream session
Economic mind?
This fool is an economic failure. He owns nothing, not even a house despite years of political service.
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