Please read this great piece from Garage Logic: Joe Soucheray: Rich Democrats want us to abhor rich Republicans By Joe Soucheray Posted: 11/01/2014 01:42:11 PM CDT Money certainly has been the villainous elephant in the room during another midterm bombardment of horrifically childish political advertising. Democrats have used every trick in the book to paint their Republican opponents as blue blazer-wearing Chatsworth Osborne Juniors, with the Rick Nolan campaign, for example, smugly referring to Stewart Mills as Stewart Mills the Third, apparently because thirds, in a Great Gatsby kind of way, have all the dough. Nolan might be running the dumbest campaign in the history of campaigns. He is trying to tell the people of northern Minnesota, who might very well be employed at a Mills Fleet Farm, or who certainly shop there, that the guy whose family built Mills Fleet Farm is some spoiled rich kid with long hair. Yes, they have had a lot of fun with Mills hair. And they keep saying that he inherited his wealth. I am not sure he has inherited anything, if that is even Nolans business in the first place. Mills works for the company! What we know for sure is that Mills has paid a heck of a lot more to the state and to the federal government than millionaire Richard Michael Nolan. I dont know that Nolan is a millionaire, but when you throw in his cars and his house and whatever he can grab in perpetuity from the government, I am reasonably certain that he is. Al Frankens campaign has been equally smug, attacking opponent Mike McFadden for having the audacity to have become a successful businessman. And for working for a corporation. And for participating in tax inversions. To the last, no he hasnt, which shouldnt be the point anyway. They are legal. Our tax codes need to be simplified and repaired of their loopholes. No one in this country, including multimillionaire Alan Stuart Franken, is required to pay more than they are legally obligated to pay. Tax avoidance is not the same as not paying taxes, which Alan Stuart Franken has been guilty of. In 2008, Franken had to pay $70,000 in back taxes and penalties to 17 states where he had made celebrity appearances. Alan Stuart Franken blamed his accountant of 18 years, Allen Chanzis of New York, for failing to properly distribute Frankens payments. What do you think Chanzis was doing for 18 years, begging Franken to pay more in taxes? Oh, well. Water under the bridge, I guess. As for McFadden, who has not gone after Frankens wealth, a good bet would be that he has paid a heck of a lot more to the state and the federal government than multimillionaire Alan Stuart Franken. Jeff Johnson has not gone after Mark Brandt Daytons truly inherited wealth. Besides, for all we know, Dayton has spent so much of his inherited wealth over the years buying himself political offices that he doesnt have any money left. And, of course, the same blowhard hypocrites who pretend to glare suspiciously at the wealth of their opponents desperately need the tax revenue from that wealth so that they can back up their promises of giving it to the people who vote for them. Multimillionaire Alan Stuart Franken tells college students and college graduates that they should be able to refinance their college loans. Well, he will need taxpayer revenue to accomplish that scam, and this country doesnt get much tax revenue from people who dont work hard, dont produce, dont accumulate and dont pay high taxes, but who cheer when multimillionaire Alan Stuart Frankens bus pulls up to another meeting of the friendlies. In what might be a first in breaking the template of what readers have come to think of newspapers, the Pioneer Press has endorsed Stewart Mills, Jeff Johnson and Mike McFadden. Somebody in one of the offices upstairs has certainly come to their senses. Joe Soucheray can be reached at jsoucheray@pioneerpress or 651-228-5474. Soucheray is heard from 1 to 4 p.m. weekdays on 1500ESPN.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:03:51 +0000
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