PLAN'ing For Higher Mining Taxes (and Bigger Government)

Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum

These PLAN thugs are *hard* core Socialists. Atavists from the Soviet era. That is why so many prominent state Democrats donate to them.

Democracy is NOT supposed to equal MOB RULE. No new taxes on mining firms. No mucking with their accounting rules. I don't own any shares in natural resource companies. I oppose BIG government and the high taxes necessary to pay for it. For every dollar the government taxes it *spends* $1.10.

I propose a ballot initiative to impose a 10% excise tax on any money donated to PLAN.

The problem in this state (as in the rest of the country) is excessive government spending. If we had small government in this state the biennial budget would only need to be $100M/yr (and probably less). *Existing* mining taxes plus ~3 weeks of sales taxes would cover it.

Tax receipts are currently running ~$2.4B/yr. The crooked politicians should REBATE ~$2.3B of that to us directly instead of redistributing it in the form of vote-buying pork. That works out to ~$1,000 per adult resident.

Feel free to donate your share to PLAN (-10%). I have my eyes on a wide screen TV.