Secrets of the City

“serious but solvable”

Massive corporate tax cuts. Slash education and health care…problem solved.

For all their bitching about how government should be run more like a business, conservatives don’t seem to get that you need to take in more money than you spend. Sure, I know ratfink loves cutting funding to, well, everything. But he still doesn’t seem to get that you need more income than expenses.

Hey TPaw! How about some more bonds to plug the hole? You love them bonds!

In the MnDOT article, what’s up with Day putting tape over Gerlach’s mouth. Must have missed something interesting. Just thinking of Dick without hands after trying that on the wrong person.

We don’t bond to fund operating expenses of the General Fund budget.

Just wait until the Democrats get going with their bonding bills. Not only will they blow the lid off what’s affordable, but they’re also tinkering with ways to do bonding without counting it on the books. We’ll see where all the bonding haters are at then.

They also holler about “kitchen table” budgeting.

Sure, families look for places to cut their budget when it gets tight. But they also look for ways to get more income. Mom goes back to work, dad gets a second (or third) job, they tell the teenager they have to get a job and pay for their own car insurance, gas, iTunes, etc.

In the MnDOT article, what’s up with Day putting tape over Gerlach’s mouth. Must have missed something interesting.

The DFL majority passed a new rule on Monday requiring that all republican lawmakers must be bound and gagged before entering the chambers during session.

“I think it’s kind of sexy,” said Mark Olson (R-Big Lake) “Let’s try the ball gag next!”

The republican caucus reacted promply to Olson’s comments, throwing the controversal lawmaker’s computer down the Capital steps, severed his telephone line and poured a cold bucket of taxes on his head.

they’re also tinkering with ways to do bonding without counting it on the books.

hey, someone learned a trick from Bush!

wanda, I have no idea who you are, but that was hilarious.

Possible hookup between wanda and wayne?

bob! I’m not trolling for anything here!
That was just really really funny.

“We’ll see where all the bonding haters are at then. “

On the republican side of the isle, maybe? Ya think?

wanda?

True Story: The first time Rex and I met (at a podcasting meetup) I was seated next to Wanda, aka Bradley Traynor.

“Sure, families look for places to cut their budget when it gets tight. But they also look for ways to get more income.“

But that is real life. Government finance has nothing to do with real life.

Oh noes – I thought we were done with divisive social issues. We certainly aren’t done with tax increases. On the heels of the largest tax increase in at least two decades, on Monday they’ll vote to raise mortgage and deed taxes and utility property tax rates. Why, they’ll even accelerate business tax payment schedules. They wanted to do this last night, but opted not to on a day when a bad housing market, high energy costs and slumping business income were highlighted as cauces for a recession. Perhaps they’ll fire another commissioner or trot out the bridge victims to clutter up the news again by Monday.

And to think, we still got three more months of this circus.

it’s only divisive if you don’t live in reality where income > expenses

Ah, cloning and killing human beings. A dream come true.

Kwatt — do they pump low concentrations of lead into the HVAC system for the house floor? That’s the only plausible explanation for ostensibly intelligent human beings being gripped by an inability to connect with reality upon walking through those doors.

“We certainly aren’t done with tax increases.“

Absolutely not. Not when it is so goddamn fun listening to all the bitching and whining at the very mention of taxes.

I think it’s something in the chicken-soup-in-a-cup that I refuse to eat. We’ve been having a lot of noontime sessions lately and this dry powdery crap turned soup with a dab of hot water fuels many legislators and staff on such days. Not me though. I have publicly stated that under no circumstances will I eat it. Under. No. Circumstances.

Someday, I’ll be the only untainted one around. Then, all ur gubments are belongs to me.

mmmmm chicken soup in a cup.

Actually, I like the Shin Ramyun spicy noodles in a cup. No better flavored salt on earth…

That’s actually plausible, Kevin. Do we have any vegetarian legislators who can act as a control group?

I don’t know because I don’t think it really counts as meat what they put in that stuff. It’s literally like a tea bag, but with soup in it.

MN LEGISLATURE IMPLICATED IN TEABAGGING SOUP SCANDAL!
a drudge exclusive!

I was trying to get someone to bet with me this morning that this would happen, but nobody took it. Can’t say I blame them.

There’s nothing like a 17-term politician telling someone to get out of a cave.

Anybody want to wager that Lord Oberstar is in the Tribune this Sunday?

I’m way past teabagging and ready for some arabian goggle eyes, if you know what I mean…