B Hussein and Minnesota DFL

Controlled legislature are on the same page and we are screwed!!

From David Anderson MNGOP

Here are a handful of the highlights of Obama’s Plan:

-  Health Care: According to the typically pro-Obama New York Times: “Mr.
Obama asked Congress to set aside $634 billion in a ‘reserve fund for
health care reform.’ He provided no new information about how to cover the
uninsured, saying he would work out the details with Congress later this
year.”

The Times also stated that Obama “would also increase premiums charged to
Medicare beneficiaries….” No, your eyes are not playing tricks on you.
Obama is asking Congress for $634 billion dollars of your money, is
offering no clear plan as to what he wants to do with the money (he’ll get
to that later, after the money is appropriated) and wants to cut back on
benefits. The only thing that is certain is the government will start
taking money out of your pocket and start making your healthcare decisions
for you.

-  Taxes: Moveon.org, while promoting the $3.6 trillion budget
abomination, repeats the Obama mantra that it: “Reduces taxes for 95% of
working Americans. And if your family makes less than $250,000, your taxes
won’t go up one dime.”

The truth of the matter, however, is that this $3.6 trillion budget calls
for a number of hidden taxes. One of these is a cap-and-trade energy tax
which, according to The Wall Street Journal “would cost the average
household in the bottom-income quintile about 3.3 percent of its after-tax
income every year. That’s about $680, not including the costs of reduced
employment and output. The three middle quintiles would see their
paychecks cut between $880 and $1,500, or 2.9 percent to 2.7 percent of
income.”

The Wall Street Journal concludes: “Cap and trade, in other words, is a
scheme to redistribute income and wealth–but in a very curious way. It
takes from the working class and gives to the affluent; takes from Miami,
Ohio, and gives to Miami, Florida; and takes from an industrial America
that is already struggling and gives to rich Silicon Valley and Wall
Street ‘green tech’ investors who know how to leverage the political
class.”

-  Jobs: MoveOn.org claims the budget “Invests more than $100 billion in
clean energy technology, creating millions of green jobs that can never be
outsourced.”

The folks at FreedomWorks have this to say: “The numbers being used here,
like the numbers used in the stimulus debate, are deceptive in that they
hide the less rosy bigger picture. It is a classic case of ‘what is seen
and what is not seen’ as described so clearly by economists Frederic
Bastiat and Henry Hazlitt. What is seen are the jobs that will certainly
result from the government spending $100 billion. What is not seen are all
the jobs that are lost because the government has to take those $100
billion out of one part of the economy to spend it somewhere else.”

Does this sound familiar in MINNESOTA?  It should!  The DFL in Minnesota
promised thousands of jobs with the huge transportation tax increases -
never happened!  They preach the same with cap and trade, energy feed in
tariffs and their ill conceived green legislation.  This won’t create jobs
either but it is sure to one thing – indirectly and directly tax every
business and family in Minnesota.  And lets not be fooled by the tax
relief talk the DFL is plugging.  EVERYBODY will pay more in taxes under
the House and Senate DFL budget plans.  They can not raise $1.5 billion
and then another $1.4 billion in the House plan ($3 billion total) by just
sticking it to the rich and the Senate can not raise their $2 billion in
the first biennium that way either.

~ by maddmedic on March 31, 2009.