Sunny days… hummming along.

Barack we pay plenty already the problem is what our govenment choses to spend it on. As I have said many times the game your side plays is to give the money to your pet projects first and then claim you are short for the basic needs. You also play the game of dedicated funds so you can just excuse yourself for wasting tons of money on pet programs.

2) Tax breaks only for the rich to gain votes?
Your PBS education is showing through– how
would a party “gain votes” from a very tiny
voting block (in MN, I bet half of whom are Dems). Of course we can turn your “logic”
around quite easily and state: welfare, free
health care, food stamps, housing vouchers, etc.
only go to the poor, that’s what the DEMOCRATS
use to gain votes; but in this case the
argument would have far more validity.

2) Bonding is by far the most sensible way
to fund large projects– as the “project” is
then paid for by ALL who use it over the life
of the project. Plus, it keeps the politicians
from diverting big lump sums of up-front money to even MORE ill-advised, wasteful lefty pet projects (instead of what they were intended
for).

Humming……”Sunny days, sweeping the clouds
away………….”

And silly Barack. REPUBLICANS know money doesn’t grow on magical trees. They know it comes from bonding so they don’t have to pay it back, their kids get to. Now that you mention it, it IS kind of magic!

And I think you’re missing the point, don’t you think there are a lot of people among that 57% that think revenue should be raised in other ways? Money doesn’t grow on magical trees as so many republicans seem to think. Yes, you actually do have to pay for things.

Spoken like a true liberal.

Yes, the DFL hopes every year that many will be for taxing “the rich” as they like to play the class warfare game year after year.

I just hope no democrat ever expects to get rich with that attitude. I also fully expect all democRats to stop taking any tax breaks as they should just pay the full amount no matter what! After all they claim they are willing to pay more to live in MN.

Of course what the DFL really wants to do is create an angry base of poor voters that they will tell they will give money and tax breaks to to gain votes.

And to the person who made the war analogy, fair enough if you want to add to the war questions how many people would die in a civil war in Iraq if we left. Just as long as they include that more Americans will die if we stay. And while they’re at it maybe they should ask if they personally would be willing to die or their children in the war in Iraq.

Now that MN’s own “Will Rogers laureate” has weighed in (recycling the predictably nauseating Nickboy dreck) about our need for collective
guilt for being unwilling to be bled dry in
the 5th most taxed state in the nation,

http://archive.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/08/08/keillor/index.html

will the attack on the “selfish right wing” soon
begin in all-out frontal attack? Are there any
in the MN GOP who will intelligently counter the folly of the “conventional wisdom” of
meek acquiescence to DFL tax-hike proposals?

one, list the projects being voted on.

two, if we’re doing bridge repairs can we bond them or at least a large majority of them now to order them

three, since we know how much extra we will be spending on bridges and roads now compared with May what pile of bills will be repealed before serious spent to pay for it.

Or is that being unreasonable to ask?

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN

I also think the bridge collapse has made us less willing to pay more taxes, the voters don’t think they’re the ones that failed, and aren’t willing to be the ones that are held accountable

Go put your tinfoil hat back on and keep telling us that the Sviggum seat will be lost again. I like that one…it had me laughing all yesterday.

I’m not surprised by your liberally clouded disbelief. I too get bent when I see polls that generically ask: “Should we get out of Iraq?” without asking if they like seeing millions die in a civil war or $5 per gallon gas due to market instability.

So you are getting a taste of your own medicine. Although, at least the poll said it was an increase for road and bridges…a bit more descriptive. Of course, they didn’t remind the polled boobs that, due to the Constitutional amendment that passed last November…only 60% of the money raise from the increase can GO to roads.

Both the Democrats and Republicans in Washington want to spend 10’s of billions on welfare for the middle class (oh wait, it’s “for the children”) with a gov’t insurance program.

2008 won’t be a picnic for Republicans, but I’d be surprised if we don’t pick up a few seats.

Its easy to generically say we shouldn’t raise taxes and we should cut spending. But when it comes to specifics about what should be cut people aren’t so eager about budget cuts.