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Taxpayers League of Minnesota eUpdate
1. Taxpayers League Live! with David Strom.
2. Tax Rally: free stuff, taxes, comedy and beer. What are you doing on Saturday?
3. More liberal math: Reduced traffic congestion obviously equals the need for more taxes.
4. A friendly public service announcement from yourTaxpayers League.
5. Would one editorial like this be too much to ask from the Strib?
1. Taxpayers League Live! with David Strom.
Tune in this Saturday to AM 1280 The Patriot from 9 – 11 am when David will be joined by Geoff Michel and Jason McKinley. Michel, State Senator from Edina and an Assistant Minority Leader, will give us an inside account of the DFLs tax plans and what the prospects are for yet another overtime legislative session. During the second hour, McKinley, with the group FairTax.org, will talk about the outside (outside) chance Americans have of seeing any kind of tax reform coming out of the 110th Congress. Also, be sure to tune in at 10:05 am for the Capitol report with Phil Krinkie. Up this week, Phil will be checking in from St. Paul before the Tax Rally kicks off and providing the latest updates from a Saturday meeting of the House Taxes Committee.
2. Come by and show the Sierra Club’s “granola warriors” who’s the boss.
First, click here and take a look at the latest lawn sign from the Taxpayers League of Minnesota: Liberalism 101 – Tax, Tax, Tax. Spend, Spend, Spend. After that gets you all worked up, make plans to get over to the State Capitol on Saturday, April 14 for the Jason Lewis Tax Rally. The Taxpayers League will be parked outside the State Office Building (just east of the Capitol steps) handing out lawn signs, “Please Veto Any Tax Increase” postcards for Governor Pawlenty and a 21st century “Common Sense”-like bill of indictment of St. Paul’s tax and spenders. So stop by, get smart and get armed. Then,
AFTER THE TAX RALLY, stop by Stub & Herbs (227 Oak St SE, Minneapolis) to hear comedian Doug Stanhope live at 3pm. Stanhope, a guy who does politically incorrect humor at its best and is a former co-host of the Man Show, will be performing with three other great local comedians: Eric Nigg, Brooks Robinson, and Tommy Rymann. $10 Cover, $5 for students 18+ Buy One, Get One Beer + $2 off your entrée (I’m kind of partial to the “Amazon clear-cutting to feed the cows” Penn State burger – a pound of meat and a bun the size of tire).
This is an officially sanctioned Taxpayers League drinking event. As such, I expect you all to be there after the Rally. That is all.
3. No Taxpayers League propaganda here. This one comes straight from Mn/DOT.
“Twin Cities area congestion decreases for third year in a row”
“ST. PAUL, Minn.— Traffic congestion on some state roadways in the Twin Cities metropolitan area has decreased for the third straight year, according to the Metropolitan Freeway System 2006 Congestion Report released recently by the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
“The total number of congested miles was 267 miles in 2006, down from 277 miles in 2005 and 280 miles in 2004. The peak of Twin Cities traffic congestion was 293 miles in 2003. A congested mile is a mile of traffic moving slower than 45 miles per hour.
“Mn/DOT attributes the reduction to the completion of a number of major construction projects in late 2005 and 2006.”
Ah yes, congestion decreases for the third straight year in the Metro while our own Transportation-Industrial Complex continues to ratchet up their hysterical noise machine of doggerybaw. When will it end? Probably never. Where ever there is millions and millions in “free” money to be had, you’ll always find the blood-sucking TIC close behind, ready to line their pockets while warning you of the dangers of congestion, congestion, congestion.
4. Teach a man to fish and all that good stuff.
Because we here at the Taxpayers League are truly committed to educating all Minnesotans about government and the legislative process (and because it just so happens to be political party convention season), we are now making all Taxpayers League materials (including our newest flyer on this session’s outrageous tax increase proposals – found here) available to anyone attending a party convention in the coming weeks. Whether your party worships Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Ayn Rand or Rachel Carson, we want to hear from you. Reply to this email or pass it along to a friend and tell them the intellectual cavalry is waiting for their call. Whether its education, taxes, government waste, the reason we pay what we pay at the pump or good ol’ fashion “No New Taxes,” if you’ve got room in your trunk and neighbors in need of educatin’, we’ve got just the thing.
5. “An iPod for every kid? Are they !#$!ing idiots?”
A Friday, April 6 editorial from the Detroit Free Press:
“We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that has passed the $1 billion mark, House Democrats Thursday offered a spending plan that would buy a MP3 player or iPod for every school child in Michigan.
“No cost estimate was attached to their hare-brained idea to ‘invest’ in education. Details, we are promised, will follow.
“The Democrats, led by their increasingly erratic speaker Andy Dillon of Redford Township, also pledge $100 million to make better downtowns. “Their plan goes beyond cluelessness. Democrats are either entirely indifferent to the idea that extreme hard times demand extreme belt tightening, or they are bone stupid. We lean toward the latter.” Read the rest here.
The Taxpayers League of Minnesota's E Update is written by Mark Giga
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