Mark Dayton demonstrates
yet again why he's such a perfect governor for our times:
Gov. Mark Dayton said he supports repealing a new farm equipment tax during a brief special session next month that he previously insisted would be limited to storm relief.
“It was a very bad mistake,” the DFL governor said during a visit to Farmfest. The sales tax would cost the state’s farmers a projected $14 million a year.
Dayton said the tax was slipped into the massive tax bill at the end of the legislative session with little notice. “No one wants to take responsibility for it,” said Dayton, who agreed to the tax as part of a much larger tax bill. “I was not aware of it, my staff was not aware of it until the next morning when the tax bill was already buttoned up.”
Two very quick observations:
- Due diligence is apparently for other people
- Have you ever noticed that no one ever slips a tax cut into one of these "massive tax bills?" Odd, isn't it?
2 comments:
I don't think this is a mistake. I'm thinking that Dayton's express purpose is to see exactly how far he can push the tax code to the left, and he is sorry only because he got caught.
Like you note, if the trend is always in one direction, it's generally not an accident.
So he knew about the tax before he signed it into law yet he signed the bill anyway? Now he wants to repeal it during a special session yet does not want to take up the warehousing tax that is already stifling business and forcing others to move out of state? What would he have done about the farm tax had he not gone to Farmfest where he could blow smokes up the farmers butts and look like a hero by saying he wants the tax repealed?
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