Emmer's Budget Plan full of congnitive dissociance

[CatholicEdHead]

Of course it is coming from a guy who wants to cuts wages for food servers.

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=870600

"We are budgeting from the point we have today, rather than what government wants to spend," Emmer told reporters, "The $5.8 billion deficit is actually based on what government wants to spend."

First he goes into denial that the huge deficit does not exist in the first place.

Emmer's plan is to cut the corporate tax rate from the current 9.8 percent to 8.8 percent in 2011, and move it down to 7.8 percent in 2012. More cuts would be phased in over time until the rate hit 3 percent in 2015.

Those business owners who file their business profits as personal income would be allowed to subtract 10 percent from their taxable income in the Emmer plan. Those businesses are organized as "Subchapter S" corporations and limited liability corporations.

Emmer's blueprint also calls for lowering the state property tax levy on businesses by a total of $100 million. And rather than asking companies to apply for a refund on business equipment sales taxes as they currently do, Emmer wants those sales taxes waived upfront.

The rest calls for only deep cuts in revenue. The average person does not get a break, just business owners. Step two of course not in today's budget will call for deep cuts in services, infrastructure, and hence overall quality of life (schools, the art community, etc...). As the story goes, the pro-Emmer business owner also admits that there would not be any immediate hiring because of this. It is only a trickle-up budget plan. How can Emmer sleep at night?

[Mnpaul]

1. Emmer is nothing more than

Palin with a penis

[trotsky]

2. Is this surprising?

Those a-holes never have any solution - they just think that cutting taxes is going to magically call the leprechauns and fairies to fix things. Corporate taxes cut to 3%? Good gravy, this state will make Mississippi #49 in everything.

[glinda]

3. How does Emmer sleep at night? Probably lots of meds. At least MPR noted that

his plan would cause a greater deficit.

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Yep, hypocritical to the highest degree

Since he is proposing a $626 million deficit, which needs to be taken out of different ways to fulfill the state's balanced budget requirement. They blast Democrats for running one but then do the same things themselves.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/09/06/emmer-budget-plan1/

[glinda]

6. Media disses these facts all the time. Dems need to start releasing

statements for the media on a regular basis.

[geardaddy]

5. I think he can sleep at night

with a mixture of "I've got mine" and heavy doses of alcohol.

[glinda]

7. lol

[CatholicEdHead]

8. He released his Education part today, still a disgrace

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/09/10/emmer-education-plan/

The first is passing of the ball by delaying repayment to schools until 2014 the money taken out this spring.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/102621369.html

He also mentioned raising standards and teacher accountability, which given his MPR radio interviews this spring for trying to break Education Minnesota, the teacher unions. He also mentions he will not cut funding from current levels, but that also probably means holding it flat, with a slow drop each year due to cost of living and other expenses, endless hard budget freezes, straining the schools even more.

[Minnesota Raindog]

9. Tom Emmer=Baghdad Bob

http://mnprogressiveproject.com/diary/7131/baghdad-bob-meets-delano-tom

Teeing off on a Grand Forks Herald editorial that drew comparisons between Angry Tom Emmer's repeated denials of a $6 billion state budget deficit and Baghdad Bob's repeated denials of an Iraqi defeat, one creative video-maker concocted this hilarious bit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P93NXPMtfWg

[mascarax]

10. Great video! Everyone watch...

Thanks for posting.
And it's nice to see a newspaper editorial with the Tom = Bob comparison.