By Ed Randazzo
In case you missed Sunday’s Rapid City Journal, David Montgomery wrote a front page article entitled “Budget expected to dominate upcoming
legislative session.” In it he explains that Senator Adelstein wants to “to cancel proposed cuts to education and Medicaid and even increase state support for public schools,” by instituting a new tax.
More “business-as-usual” for Senator Adelstein’s solution to the on-going structural deficits in South Dakota. In his world you don’t treat the cause but the symptom…..you don’t cut the expenditures, you increase the revenue by taxation. The senator says we will raise $50 million dollars a year and that this idea is more popular than budget cuts.
Sweeten it how you will by selling it as a “temporary” measure that will be partially paid for by tourists (26% he says). Simple math tells me that $37 million dollars will be paid by South Dakotans in addition to your current tax liability. This $37 million, along with the $13 million paid by tourists, will go to enable the addiction of spending more than we have.
Our elected legislators must go to Pierre on January 11, 2011 to make the necessary spending cuts to balance the budget and eliminate the structural deficit. It will not be painless or popular but it is the right thing to do.
Really gotta like Sarah Palin – the lady is something else at times
Thanks for many years of dedicated and selfess service to the Republican Party Stan!
Why don’t you thank him for his innovative ideas on how to spend YOUR money?
I usually thank him for his service whenever I see him. You really should get to know him. Then it wold be more difficult for you to repeat your fundamentalist R.I.N.O. rhetoric.
Are you familiar with the SD Republican Party Platform 2010? Go read it and please point out to me what part of the GOP Platform that Senator Adelstein supports. He is the quintessential RINO and therefore disingenuous. I do thank him for his service and for his generosity. How is it, Inde that you don’t unleash your class-envy on him? Is that reserved for conservatives only?
You’re not a conservative, nor are any of the politicians you suport. You’re a fundamentalist, bordering on extremism, and you don’t in any way represent the S.D. GOP platform. Senator Adelstein, while far from perfect, is a much better representation of the GOP platform than you or any other supporter of the tea party.
You’re still stewing in reaction to the fair treatment Gordon Howie and his wife received from the press during his ill fated quest for the S.D. GOP gubernatorial nomination?
You forgot to read the GOP platform, didn’t you? Your ignorance of the document is showing.
Gordon who?
If we just add a horn and a little more weight to the photo we would a more accurate depiction of Senator Adelstein. Still wondering why the Pennington County dead elephants society haven’t culled him from the herd. Oh I know, like Bernstein said to Woodward, ” follow the money! “.
Happy New Years to all!!