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Taxpayers League of Minnesota eUpdate
1. Taxpayers League Live! with David Strom.
2. Who needs the Star Tribune when you’ve got the Wall Street Journal?
3. Wait a minute. Am I paying for this criminal’s pension?
4. The Democratic Congress resorts to outright theft.
5. Not exactly Plato’s ideal Guardian, is he?
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 Barry Casselman and Fred Siegel. Casselman, a columnist for the Washington Times and contributor to Real Clear Politics, will help us out with handicapping the 2008 Presidential field.
Siegel, author of the Rudy Giuliani bio, The Prince of the City, will kick off what we hope to be an on going feature on all 376 Republican and Democratic candidates for President.
Also, be sure to tune in at 10:05 am for the Capitol report with Phil Krinkie.
2. It’s about time someone gave us at least some credit.
Long live the Wall Street Journal. Rather than patting our own back, I’ll let you read the warm-fuzzies from Tuesday’s Review & Outlook section (if it’s not on the front page of our website today, check back on Monday).
3. Not quite on the scale of Cong. William Jefferson, but slimy nonetheless.
I can’t say that I’ve been following the case of former State Representative Loren Jennings very closely – the words “fraud” and “elected official” aren’t exactly estranged these days, am I right? But yesterday a smart guy I know asked me a pretty smart question: “are Minnesota taxpayers still picking up the bill for this Jennings’s legislative pension?” Well?
Seems to me that the National Taxpayers Union had this idea last year for some of our wayward federal legislators. Maybe it’s time to kick it off at home, too.
4. Nancy Pelosi admits: “We’re all out of ideas. But are you really surprised by this?”
“House Democrats looking to spare millions of middle-class families from the expensive bite of the alternative minimum tax are considering adding a surcharge of 4 percent or more to the tax bills of the nation's wealthiest households. “Under one version of the proposal, about 1 million families would be hit with a 4.3 percent surtax on income over $500,000, which would raise enough money to permit Congress to abolish the alternative minimum tax for millions of households earning less than $250,000 a year, according to Democratic aides and others familiar with the plan.” To read the rest, click here.
Only Congress could come up with a plan that aims to penalize a million families to fix a problem originally intended to affect 155 people.
5. “I hit him wherever I could get my right hand on him.”
I thought this kind of behavior was strictly reserved for South Korean parliamentarians, but alas it seems that violence has finally come to the American South [please, please watch the video here]. Priceless.
“No, Senator Bishop. Use your words, use your words!”
Programming note: Next week the Taxpayers League is hitting the road for our semi-annual National Lampoon's Washington, D.C. Vacation. So if you find your email inbox is a little lonely next Friday, it's because I've accepted a posting as the Regional Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of State for Coastal Mexican Affairs in the Playa del Carmen and Cancun Departments.
The Taxpayers League of Minnesota's E Update is written by Mark Giga
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