Does this have merit? Reject the Tax Increase

[DeanC]

I wonder if this could functionally work? I know politically it is a longshot, but is the process constructed as they say it is?

http://www.minnesotamajority.org/TakeAc ... fault.aspx

Tell Your County Commissioners to Reject the Tax Increase

There may still be an opportunity to block a portion of the massive $6.6 billion transit bill passed by the Minnesota state legislature. The transit bill included over $1.1 billion of funding for mass transit boondoggle programs, funded by an increase in the metro-county sales tax and an increase in the vehicle excise tax. According to our sources, these tax increases must be ratified by a resolution passed by the Board of County Commissioners within each of the seven metro counties in which these tax increases are to go into effect.

If a County Board rejects the tax increase, it cannot be imposed upon the citizens of that county. If enough constituents take the time to contact their County Commissioners, there’s a chance that we may be able to block these tax increases in some counties.

[1911fan]

Actually it does, but only on the sales tax part. However, I do not know how the language was written regarding tying the passage of the sales tax increase to the rest of the bill moving forward. It may be that we can kill the .025% sales tax increase, but not kill the rest, and it may be that by killing the sales tax increase, the rest of the bill collapses.

[JohninMinnesota]

This is too true to be very funny...

The next time you hear a politician use the
word "billion" in a casual manner, think about
whether you want the "politicians" spending
YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
but one advertising agency did a good job of
putting that figure into some perspective in
one of its releases.


A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were
living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and
20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

[chunkstyle]

You can avoid most of the increase by boycotting gasoline...