"With the tax structure in this state, some of us are barely holding on..."
I need help. Badly. I am very, very confused. What are we doing in our great state of Minnesota? Are we trying to become more tax and business friendly? Are we going to try to build and maintain roads and bridges. Are we going to build more choo-choo trains which few people ride (and never pay for themselves), or what? At the same time, the Met Council wants us all living vertically in Minneapolis driving no cars by 2040. This is enough to drive an old sailor to drink!
Timing is everything. Yesterday in the mail I received my license tab renewal for my 2013 truck. $500. For one year. And Governor Whosit wants it to go even higher. This is after we just paid $300 for my wife's 2013 car tabs last month. Now Governor Whosit wants to raise our gas tax AND sales tax. We really need that money to pay for roads and bridges. As they say out west, bull crap! I simply don't believe it. One of the things that Candidate Johnson wanted to do before the last election, was to do an "acid test" on each and every program in the state. Find out where the money was really going. Like him, I have STRONG doubts that all money collected for transportation is being used for it's designated purpose.
And what is up with taxing the retired people in this state? Neighboring states do not. Kiplinger has rated Minnesota as one of the ten worst states to live in if you are retired. Social Security, military pensions, all pensions are taxed. Why? Who the heck knows! This state has a blood thirst for money. Why? So Governor Whosit and his merry bunch of DFL thieves can fleece the innocent.
Our sales tax is high - very high. It is almost 7%. Some items are exempt, and the DFL chattering class keeps wanting clothes and food thrown in the mix. You know, more money for the machine. The tax proposal put forth by Governor Whosit will not only raise our gas tax, but also sales tax in the seven country metro area. By another 1/2 cent. That will put our sales tax over 7% on most things we buy (in the metro area).
I have told this story before. A woman I worked with at my first company graduated with an MBA at a very prestigious college in Chicago. So did her husband. They did not have kids, lived in a townhouse, and both made very good salaries. One day at coffee she confessed to me that she and her husband might have to file for bankruptcy. I was shocked. I asked her why. They both were compulsive spenders. No matter how much they made, they spent more. Get the picture? They were both the personification of Minnesota.
As other states "get it", our state (run by Governor Whosit and the DFL loons) do not. Not even close. TAX, TAX, TAX. It has become a mantra, a calling card for the DFL. High taxes only hurt the middle class. The poor get assistance and the rich get tax attorneys. Those in the middle get caught in the tax trap. Soon, the slow trickle of an exodus will turn into a stampede. Florida, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and a host of other states are looking better and better all the time.
Governor Whosit, you are choking the life blood out of this state. The sad part is, I don't think you really care.
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