Comments on: Miscellaneous Local Links – 9/28/06

By: Raindog66

Raindog66 — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:43:10 +0000

Nothing wrong with working at the Car Wash!

By: Mpls Simpleton

Mpls Simpleton — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:43:09 +0000

Doesn’t matter if you were an athlete or a scholar.

If your parents are rich you will own the car wash, if not you will work at it.

By: compubox

compubox — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:24:42 +0000

actually, athletes are the ones owning carwashes . poor bobby b, always picked last for kickball.

By: Bx

Bx — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:08:39 +0000

The headline post says the modular home is in NORTH Minneapolis and so I thought "hey! Cool, someone is daring to invest this kind of thing in North Minneapolis!" But alas, it's in NORTHEAST Minneapolis, which is slightly like being on a different PLANET. Dumbass poster.

By: wrong, bobby b

wrong, bobby b — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:50:59 +0000

the jocks end up working in real estate as loan originators and drive hummers in from the suburbs to go clubbin’ on 1st ave in their party shirts.

By: semantics

semantics — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:47:03 +0000

potaytoe pohtahtoh, it’s all a semantics debate. Government charges you money for this or that, call it a fee or a tax but they’re still taking your money for some purpose. Trying to group certain kinds of charges seperately from other kinds of charges is pretty asinine and bound to fail becuase it’s got to be a completely arbitrary standard.

By: bobby_b

bobby_b — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:44:12 +0000

On a different subject, I get a huge kick out of the “let’s celebrate the good scholars and not the school athletes” diatribe.

The poor jocks get this one brief moment in the sun. In ten years, they’re going to be working at the carwashes the geeky brainy kids own. Let ‘em think they count for this one small passing moment in time.

By: MunsingW

MunsingW — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:40:02 +0000

Also, the MVST could be considered a fee, as opposed to a tax.

In the case of a fee, those using a given government service pay for it directly. This makes some sense, as one component of a balanced source of state government income.

For an example of what is not a fee, see the Health Impact Fee that smokers pay.

By: MunsingW

MunsingW — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:33:02 +0000

Remember, however, that this was part of a much more ambitious and comprehensive transportation plan that was supported by a broad array of MN's best and brightest, and by a largely bi-partisan contingency of legislators.

What happened to this legislation after it was passed by both the DFL controlled Senate and the GOP controlled house by fairly comfortable margins?

Pawlenty vetoed it.

Governors cannot, however, veto proposed constitutional amendments, and so this poorly worded remnant of the much larger piece of legislation lingers on.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:08:06 +0000

I agree with champs. The transportation amendment is horrible policy. The whole point of having a legislature is to make decisions like where and how transportation funding should be allocated. This amendment is just a cop out because they haven’t been able to do their jobs in recent years.