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On the Blog Post Hotel Minnesota
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On the Blog Post Hotel Minnesota
rob_h78
11:59 am on Thursday, May 23, 2013
ReplyThen we have this: "Note well the comments in the article about "Hotel Minnesota". These are tricks of third world dictatorships, not the USA."
Well - there are exactly three comments on the page as I view it now...
1) Sorry I missed the whining. Note that the "horror stories" involve people who want to have the benefit of living in MN (for good medical care, access to outdoors and businesses) without paying the taxes. People others might call "welfare cheats from Chicago."
2) I'm trying to imagine how large an income I would have to have before an extra few percent in income taxes would justify a move, but when I get that high, the whole idea seems downright silly.
3) James, I was doing the same thing, reached the same conclusion, and then went backward to see how low my income would have to become to elicit a panic reaction over a few percent tax increase.
When people throw around terms like "Third World Dictatorships", seriously, we have to wonder if the people use that phrase have the slightest concept about how Third World Dictatorships actually operate - because if they equate those words with Dictatorships - well, I suppose we can all be thankful that at least the words "Nazi" or "Hitler" were not used.
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On the Blog Post Hotel Minnesota
rob_h78
11:58 am on Thursday, May 23, 2013
ReplyThen we have this: "Note well the comments in the article about "Hotel Minnesota". These are tricks of third world dictatorships, not the USA."
Well - there are exactly three comments on the page as I view it now...
1) Sorry I missed the whining. Note that the "horror stories" involve people who want to have the benefit of living in MN (for good medical care, access to outdoors and businesses) without paying the taxes. People others might call "welfare cheats from Chicago."
2) I'm trying to imagine how large an income I would have to have before an extra few percent in income taxes would justify a move, but when I get that high, the whole idea seems downright silly.
3) James, I was doing the same thing, reached the same conclusion, and then went backward to see how low my income would have to become to elicit a panic reaction over a few percent tax increase.
When people throw around terms like Third World Dictatorships, seriously, we have to wonder if the the people use that phrase have the slightest concept about how Third World Dictatorships actually operate - because if they equate those words with Dictatorships - well, I suppose we can all be thankful that at least the words "Nazi" or "Hitler" were not used.
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On the Blog Post Hotel Minnesota
rob_h78
12:07 pm on Thursday, May 23, 2013
Reply"The 200 (presumably high income) people who attended this event say they're thinking hard about taking their hard-earned money elsewhere. Now."
So these folks have been willing to live in Minnesota for all of this time paying higher taxes then they would in other states, although plenty of those other states have other ways to get their citizens money other than income taxes so its not quite as simple as that - but after all the time living here they will now leave?
Well, ok, we have not laws to keep them from leaving and they go to whatever other state they believe will be a better fit for whatever beliefs they hold dear to their heart - or pocketbook - as the case may be.
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On the article How Would The Legalization of Gay Marriage Affect You?
rob_h78
6:42 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Adultery is immoral behavior - it is even noted in the 10 Commandments...
So, should people who commit adultery be allowed to remain married - or if they divorce allowed to get married again?
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On the article How Would The Legalization of Gay Marriage Affect You?
rob_h78
6:41 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Adultery is immoral behavior - its even one of the 10 Commandments...
So, should people who commit adultery be allowed to remain married - or if they divorce allowed to get married again?
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On the article Patch Readers Respond to Passage of Gay Marriage Bill
rob_h78
5:49 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Indeed. I know Muslims who do not consider Muslims who commit terrorist acts, etc... as being Muslims and they believe that they are not abiding by the Muslims faith.
However, of course these Radicalized Muslims completely believe that they are Muslim and plenty of non-Muslims believe that they are Muslims.
However, it is interesting how a lot of Christians will immediately say that a specific person or group is not Christian even though that person or group completely believes that they are Christian while not granting the same opportunity to Muslims to distance themselves from the radicals who claim that faith.
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On the article MN Gay Marriage Raises Issue: When Is It OK to Call Someone a Bigot?
rob_h78
12:19 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
ReplyGiven what we have heard gay people called in this country for decades (along with black people, hispanic people, asian people, women, well you get the picture) - bigot is hardly a word to get freaked out over.
But I can understand when the people who used to be winning on issue find themselves losing they suddenly realize what its like to be "on the other side"...
And when they start getting called a few names because people no longer "fear" what used to be the majority suddenly they start getting their panties in a bunch and start whining that "people are being mean to us"...
Pretty funny stuff - its like hearing a White Guy whine that he can't get any breaks in the United States...
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On the article How Should Twin Cities Suburbs Respond to Increasing Poverty?
rob_h78
5:46 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013
ReplyThis isn't a Conservative vs Liberal problem - plenty of the most Conservatively run states are among the poorest states in the country
The only way to fight poverty is through education.
We have a bit of a disaster in education that stems from a basic, singular course of education which presumes students will got to college and those that don't end up with a generic education that has little practicality in the real world.
I think we need a couple of tracks, the traditional track for kids who do well academically and that will be going to college and a track for kids who either do not do as well academically or simply don't want to to go to college and transition them, perhaps starting late in middle school, towards vocational schools where instead of trig, calculus, biology, etc... they will start to learn to be a mechanic, basic accounting skills, nursing, plumbing, construction, electrical, etc... so when they graduate they will have some solid skills that are marketable in the real world.
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On the article MN Gay Marriage Raises Issue: When Is It OK to Call Someone a Bigot?
rob_h78
12:45 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
ReplyI remember not to long ago the outrage over gays being able to serve openly in the military and the dire warnings about what would happen if it ever came to pass...
Well it came to pass...
And the outrage dried up overnight....
Once marriage equality is fully realized all of the people who are so outraged over it will scamper to their next social issue and will man the barricades to tell everyone else how to live, what is morally correct and will testify to all of the horrible things that will come to pass if more people are treated equally...
rob_h78
12:12 pm on Thursday, May 23, 2013
"The 200 (presumably high income) people who attended this event say they're thinking hard about taking their hard-earned money elsewhere. Now."
So these folks have been willing to live in Minnesota for all of this time paying higher taxes then they would in other states, although plenty of those other states have other ways to get their citizens money other than income taxes so its not quite as simple as that - but after all the time living here they will now leave?
Well, ok, we have no laws to keep them from leaving and they can go to whatever other state they believe will be a better fit for whatever beliefs they hold dear to their heart - or pocketbook - as the case may be.
There are lots of states with lower taxes, some with higher, but few have better schools or higher education levels - of course different people select where they live based on lots of different criteria - family, friends, climate, health care, amenities, taxes, etc... and of course taxes is just one component.
But if taxes is the deal killer for them - please - they are welcome to move to where ever they like - heck - there are even other countries they could move to.