Thank you sir, may I have another..

Okay, Minnesotans. You voted for these assclowns. Now bend over and take it like a man:

$900 million income tax

increase is in the mix

Senate DFLers are working on a nearly $1 billion income tax increase proposal that could wind up boosting most Minnesotans' income taxes to pay primarily for education spending.

Senate Taxes Chairman Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, said Wednesday that the caucus was "about evenly split" between two income tax plans and was supposed to make a choice today, with a final vote by the full Senate due as early as Saturday as part of an education funding bill.

One of the proposals being considered would raise income tax rates across the board to 1999 levels, essentially wiping out the 2000 reductions, and would create a fourth tier for the wealthiest Minnesotans. The second plan would simply add a fourth tax rate that could go as high as 10 percent, Bakk said. That would give Minnesota the highest income tax rate in the nation.

The state's existing top rate is 7.85 percent. Only three states have top tax rates of 9 percent or more.

Of course, to DFLers, whose penchant for pickpocketing taxpayers can be said to be genetic, the tax increases are naturally

'Not that scary'

Bakk said Minnesotans would find that an across-the-board tax increase was "not that scary," once the numbers came out. A family making $50,000 a year, he said, "would probably be looking at a $30 or $40 increase a year. They'd get that back many times over in property tax relief and better schools."

Not that scary? (the politician exclaimed as he pissed on the taxpayer's leg) Perhaps when compared with seeing your ugly mug, Bakk, but let's get real here. BTW, since when is a rise in taxes on one end "property tax relief" on the other?

The 2000 income tax cuts produced fairly modest relief for middle-income taxpayers, with taxes dropping about $50 a year for those making $50,000. At $500,000, income taxes dropped by nearly $1,400.

Wow. How. Unfair.

Do ya think that just maybe their taxes got dropped $1400 because the sots who made 500k paid a helluva lot more in taxes in the first place than did the 50k household???

Naww... what the hell am I thinking. It would take too much common sense and brains for a mere moonbat to figure that one out.

But Brian McClung, Gov. Tim Pawlenty's spokesman, said that's not the only consideration. The proposed increases, he said, are piling up in every direction: gasoline tax, sales tax, income tax.

"This state is not going to have the highest tax rate in the country," McClung said. "It's not going to have an across-the-board tax increase. If there's anything that's been clear, it's that the governor does not support massive tax hikes when we have a surplus."

DFLers, McClung said, have "added a dessert wing to the all-you-can-eat buffet. It's not happening. The governor will veto it."

Thank GOD we didn't get governor Hatch.

Hey Minnesotans--next time you're thinking about doing something excruciatingly stupid-- like voting for another DFL legislative candidate, take a good, long, hard look at Cy Thao's statement, permanently ensconced atop this blog.

And think again.
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