If the problem is at the state level, then we should FIX it at the STATE level. The DFL just won a bunch of seats in the house cutting the RP margin from 28 to 2, running on education, economy, and health care - ondinary people's bread and butter issues. The house might be much more receptive to helping average citizens in the cities. Better to fight that fight, than to give in to Pawlenty's blackmail of last term.
--David Shove Roseville On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A bunch of people have said that they don't like the additional sales > tax for two reasons: > > 1. It will drive more shopping out of the city and > > 2. It's another regressive tax. > > #2 seems like a real concern, but the city may have been boxed into > this --- hasn't the state taken away a lot of our taxation powers? > We're going to have to go begging to the legislature for the right to > do even this, and they're almost certainly NOT going to let us do this > on property tax, which is the only halfway progressive (in the sense > of "you have more, you pay more") alternative. > > I wonder if #1 is a real concern. I'm a big city booster, but I > already do all of my big box and department store shopping outside the > city. I'm sorry, I want to boost the city's revenue, but I *don't* > particularly want to pay a pound of flesh to some parking lot owner. > Is it just me, or doesn't Mpls seem to have a lot less public, > city-owned parking than comparable-sized cities? > > This means that the extra tax burden will be borne mostly by people > who are working downtown (e.g., at the Target office bldg), and for > whom the added convenience will overwhelm the added cost; or by people > who have no alternatives, bringing us back to point #1... > > -- > > Robert P. Goldman > ECCO > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > REMINDERS: > 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL > PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. > 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
