5 Thoughts on “Governor Doogard’s softball tournament

  1. snapper on January 24, 2011 at 5:34 pm said:

    I can’t help it I like the guy! Maybe I’ll change my mind but he is just so sincere and I’m happy Marion M. Rounds is gone!!!

  2. Snapper – I get really bored with the ‘nice guy’ persona. Some of the biggest a-holes are great politicians. I don’t care if Dennis is sincere, I only want him to make good decisions, and so far, I am not impressed. As I told a Republican the other day who knows Dennis, the budget cuts should be line by line and determined on merit.

  3. Costner on January 25, 2011 at 12:21 pm said:

    They’ve tried the line by line approach… it never works because there is always some lobbyist group who defends their program or someone’s back that isn’t getting scratched as they thought it would after tossing their support behind a candidate.

    So if a program is worthy of tax dollars today and already exists, across the board cuts is the only way to go. If on the other hand we could target specific areas to cut which wouldn’t hurt anything… why the hell are we blowing money on them now?

    Also keep in mind that Daugaard said his idea was 10% cuts across the board and even deeper cuts in some areas, so if he is playing favorites it is hard to see where.

    For all this bitching and complaining about his idea to slash the budget what would you offer as a solution? Dip into reserves even more? Raise taxes? Create new taxes? Cut one or two programs that you personally don’t think are necessary?

    Oh sure I’ve heard ideas about taxing advertising or raising the state take on VL, but neither of those will be remotely close to 10% of the state budget… so what else could we do? How about raise license plate fees 300% so they are in line with some other states and charge $500 to get a drivers license. Maybe we could tax prepared food an extra 15% while we listen to the complaints from the resturaunts when sales drop off. Heck let’s just enact a corporate income tax because we don’t really need Citibank around anymore… who cares about a few thousand jobs anyway?

  4. snapper on January 25, 2011 at 2:50 pm said:

    I know I just like him.

  5. I think taking an 80% cut of VL is a great idea. That could probably bring in $30 million, easily. As for cutting education, they will just pass those expenses onto local taxpayers, so I’m not sure how anything is being cut.

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