Comments on: Valentine’s Day Mystery

By: FOSH

FOSH — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:21:50 +0000

I got my first kiss as a 2nd grader next to the swings because i finally built up the courage to tell my crush how i felt about her. Ahh, the memories.

By: FOSH

FOSH — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:19:27 +0000

Doug, you should delete Hyronimus’s comment. If you write about politics, i would expect a political response. Otherwise there is no business for it.

By: Per Pål P

Per Pål P — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:47:05 +0000

Grouse…Would 1-lb. of lutefisk be enough ?
Per Pål Peterson

By: hardass

hardass — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:12:22 +0000

hey grouse…answer me this…….was she a hottie?

By: Mike C

Mike C — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:20:04 +0000

How did we go from talking about our heart pounding valentine’s to taxes? Lets get back on the topic that Doug’s blog was about……

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:06:12 +0000

The thing about taxes is that everyone wants them (got things for our gov. to spend our money on). They just want it arranged so that someone else will pay and not you i.e. Dennis’ alluding to the farmer/rancher that drives to town in their $35, 000 pick up for coffee with their friends—————–twice a day. It happens, I’ve seen it!

By: fred

fred — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:13:01 +0000

Hyronimus,
Your a buzz kill. We don’t want to here about your taxs or politics here.
Just GO AWAY.

By: Dennis Rhodes

Dennis Rhodes — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:16:55 +0000

Nice story, Doug, brings back memories.
To Hyronimus Anonymous! What are you doing in here? You don’t belong in this blog. Besides that, you don’t know what you are talking about. As a former Minnesotan that moved his business over here because of a reasonable tax climate, I am here to tell you that the sales tax is the fairest way to impose taxes. People with larger incomes spend more and end up being taxed accordingly. Out of staters passing through help pick up the tax bill without really caring if their cheeseburger cost them 1% more than it did in some other state. Any income tax imposed is going to have deductions allowed and many will pay no tax at all because of these deductions. I know at least a dozen farmers that drive around in brand new $35,000 pickup trucks that bought the trucks because they “had to” in order to not pay any Federal income tax. If you want to raise some income we need to grow up and stop subsidizing dead end technologies like the Corn/Ethanol industry and put that money into education instead.

By: Hyronimus Anonymous

Hyronimus Anonymous — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:55:20 +0000

First, a happy Valentine’s Day to everyone. But I’d like to get off subject here…briefly…to talk about what appear to be “heart-wrenching” budget decisions being made, or avoided, in Pierre.
There is talk about raising the sales tax which, in South Dakota power circles seems to be considered a “voluntary tax”, something like gambling income. Oh, I mean gaming.
What hasn’t come up is the obvious; a small income tax. Yeah, I know. It would be a runaway train, but then so is the sales tax, isn’t it?
How about this. A small income tax earmarked for education that could only be increased by a vote of the people. It could be a sixty percent majority like school bonds although a simple majority would be more practical.
Yes, there are states that still get by without an income tax, but all of them that I know of have alternative massive revenue drivers like tourism or oil money. We don’t we have cowboys and poverty and it’s time to grow up and stop being one cheap skate congress person away from being a territory. Sorry, Doug. I just needed a platform. Now back to you.

By: grouse

grouse — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 02:57:49 +0000

I know who that girl was! But, I’m not tellin’. Well, maybe. It all depends. Everything has a price. But, it would take a healthy sum to drag it out of me. Well, maybe not that much. Make an offer.