Although your host (Bruce) won’t be there, Kiffi has found someone who can talk about the proposed tax increasing amendment to the state constitution. This amendment
“Shall the Minnesota constitution be amended to dedicate funding to protect our drinking water sources; to protect, enhance, and restore our wetlands, prairies, forests, and fish, game, and wildlife habitat; to preserve our arts and cultural heritage; to support our parks and trails; and to protect, enhance, and restore our lakes, rivers, streams, and groundwater by increasing the sales and use tax rate beginning July 1, 2009, by three-eighths of one percent on taxable sales until the year 2034?”
is controversial primarly
- because it raises taxes by changing a fundamental document (the state constitution) that many feel should not so lightly be changes.
- because it is seen as an end run around the careful deliberative processes a republic uses to enact any laws (bypassing our elected “experts” in favor of a populist vote process)
- because of who would be given the power to spend the money it raises (who are they anyway)?
Hope you all can keep the conversation lively and have fun, wish I were going to be there but this is my weekend to howl … arrrrroooooooooh!
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