By Ed Randazzo
Did you happen to read the excerpts from a live chat published by the Rapid City Journal on Friday, 2/25/2011?
I did.
Senator Adelstein, who never met a tax he didn’t like, is promoting his “soak the tourist” tax again. He says that 26% of the increase will be paid by tourists. I guess Stan thinks that if they step into his parlor that they should be taxed. His estimate also tells me that 74% of his new tax will be paid by South Dakotans. I don’t want to pay any of Stan’s new tax and I’m thinking most folks would say the same. Frankly, I find Senator Adelstein’s approach to deficit reduction too taxing.
Stan, the Tax Man also says that if we cut $25 million from the state’s budget for healthcare (I think he means Medicaid), that we will lose $40 million in federal funds. NEWS FLASH, STAN: The federal government is broke too. They are just acting like they aren’t. How long can they send money into South Dakota that they don’t have? The federal government has NO MONEY OF ITS OWN. The money that comes from Washington is our money, the taxpayer’s money or money they have “borrowed” largely from China which will have to be paid back by our children and their children. The federal government does not make money, it collects it from ……us.
Stan, the Tax Man also said he has support for his plan “everywhere” and even from the tea party. Really? I am a former Board member of Citizens fo Liberty (a tea party group) and of the South Dakota Tea Party Alliance and I have NEVER heard any tea party member support new or increased taxes.
NEWS FLASH, STAN: The t-e-a in tea party stands for Taxed Enough Already. To my knowledge, Stan Adelstein has never been to a tea party meeting or rally and I believe his statement regarding tea party support for his new tax to be false.
I attended the Rapid City Crackerbarrel on Saturday and challenged Senator Adelstein to reveal which tea party or tea party member that had indicated support for his new tax. He answered that his source was a Rasmussen poll (a push-poll he had financed) and when asked if he had actually spoken to even one tea party member, his reply was “no.”
Somehow David Montgomery of the Rapid City Journal who wrote an article about the crackerbarrel in the Sunday edition missed that little fact. Was this because it involved a column which was published in Saturday’s Rapid City Journal or perhaps it’s just another occurence of treating Senator Adelstein differently than others when he is caught stretching the limits of veracity.
Either choice is not flattering.
Stan the man with the tax plan ….is over. This creep of the ruling class has to go away. Although, his district is full of his type, so, he’ll probably be re-elected, even if it’s posthumously.
GO GETEM ED !!!!
I also think it is time to start ragging on the wack-o’s in district 32 that keep electing this clown. I think a special “district 32 tax” should be brought forward. If those folks love Adelstein so much they should have to support his ideas and lead by example, hahaha
Good work, Ed–on the article and on confronting Senator Adelstein at the crackerbarrel!
You’re a true patriot!
Senator Adelstein is not only a man of deep faith, compassion and conviction, he is also a patriot in the truest sense of the word. He believes a political philosophy that is different than the tea party agenda is a better way to serve his fellow man. That’s a fact,not an opinion. The rest of your criticism of him is merely your opinions expressed through fundamentalist rhetoric.
God bless all Americans! Even those who aren’t following the tea party agenda, and also those who are.
Stan believes in Stan, control, self-promotion, control, money, control, power, control…….get the picture?
I completely disagree with your opinion of Senator Adelstein, as do the majority of the South Dakota patriots residing in his district.
I do believe that you are beginning to use the word majority as much as fundamentalist. Why is the majority always your proof source?
Simply because in a politics, particularly elections the “majority rules.” As long as Senator Adelstein continues to be re-elected by the majority of the people living in that district, we know they are satisfied with the representation he is providing, including this bill.
But you worship at th altar of “majority” as though it is always right. Did it make slavery right because it was the will of the majority?
I have no idea how I would have felt about slavery if I were alive back then, and neither do you.
I’ll thank you to not pretend to know how I feel or would have felt or what I think or would have thought. Lose the chains you have to controling others. Much as you might think so, you are not divine or omniscient.
And I’ll thank you to keep your 18th century man made self-serving religious views out of my government.
I serve God. And it’s my government too.
You believe you serve God. Believing something doesn’t make it true. Care to prove it?
And you saying something doesn.t make it true. Go try to goad someone else.
Simply put, you cannot come close to proving you are serving God, except in your own mind. Neither can I, or anyone else for that matter.