Soucheray: It’s not too late to get up. They haven’t spent our money yet

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We would like our a reimbursement.

Joe Soucheray

Minnesota doesn’t have a government surplus of virtually $18 billion. The federal government doesn’t have a surplus. The federal government is experiencing an abundance of taxpayer money. And it’s not a budget surplus unless it’s rightfully acknowledged that the budget was too incompetently and enthusiastically submitted in the primary place. Are you able to imagine over-billing your customers $18 billion?

We would like our a reimbursement.

And we don’t need a Walz check. How grandiose of him. Walz, you don’t have any money. That’s our money.

No other state within the nation would put up with this. We want protests and outrage. As an alternative, we get, “hey everybody, it looks like we may need a white Christmas in any case.’’ We’ve been dulled into an odd complacency led to by too many hotdishes and an excessive amount of cold weather and the devastating consequences of one-party rule. The $18 billion taxpayer surplus is now within the hands of the identical individuals who were in charge who only tardily acted after we were getting ripped off by a $250 million food fraud scam. Still no apology from those on high.

We would like our a reimbursement.

None of you might be to be trusted. Here’s why. Unless we get our a reimbursement together with an entire rewriting of the tax brackets the federal government will treat the excess as a windfall to do with as they please. Existing programs will get fattened. Latest programs and entitlements will blossom. We’ll spend money on tree equity and whole recent departments dedicated to creating sure we understand that criminals are really the victims. More programs, more expansion and more growth of an already bloated government that couldn’t even catch a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar scam.

All that expansion and all those recent programs may have to be funded in perpetuity. If the Legislature and the governor get away with not returning the cash and lowering taxes then we now have just increased the budget by $18 billion.

We would like our a reimbursement.

No other state within the country is experiencing this, not even close. That quantity of overcharging the taxpayer is historic and relatively than be embarrassed, or a minimum of sheepish, they’re gleeful. It doesn’t help that the news-gathering institutions, most decidedly television newscasters, treated the story with concerning the same seriousness as announcing a record pumpkin grown in Anoka.

It’s not too late to get up. They haven’t spent our money yet.

Speaking of which, it was a bunch of community activists in St. Paul who successfully got enough signatures on a petition to create a ballot query for the last election to limit rent increases to a few percent a yr, much to the consternation of the individuals who actually make a living constructing and renting properties.

The property tax levy increase in St. Paul this yr is 15 percent. It’s high time that we change into activists on our own behalf and get enough names on a petition to put in writing a ballot initiative limiting property tax increases to three percent a yr. We’d get back to being a city we could actually afford.






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