Minnesota wins…

Well…there was an interesting article in the Free Press today that compared the difference of two midwestern states…one run by dems on dem principles, and Michigan run by repubs on repub principles…want to guess which one is doing better…I mean after you get your car out of the huge pothole it just fell into here in Michigan. Of course, it’s the one, Minnesota, run on facts and sound economic principles…not Michigan that is run on ideology and wishful thinking by the crony capitalism that is the repub party. In Minnesota where tax rates on corporations are much higher than here in Michigan, they have enough money to fund their schools, fix their roads, revenue share with their cities and do the infrastructure spending that will pay off in the future with higher growth rates for all their citizens. One thing you have to note is that even with higher corporate tax rates, there is no big exodus of jobs…in fact, their unemployment rate is 3 points lower than Michigan and they have not hollowed out their middle class. Here in Michigan…taxes were raised on retirees, cut for corporations and you can see the results whenever you drive your car….as the roads pound it into dust since there is no tax money to fix them….cities crumble as revenue sharing tax money is given to the rich and corporations, and not one job is created except for more accountants for the CEO’s that have to figure out how to spend all of the new money the have gotten from those tax cuts. All the while these tax cuts hollow out the programs that benefit workers and make Michigan competitive…but the repubs just don’t give a damn about that since workers are just “takers” that take food out of the mouths of the rich. I think everyone needs to read of the failures of the repub economic policies and call them out on it…I have had enough…geez…

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