All Is Fair?

Maybe, maybe not, he'd taken a toke off of some medical marijuana to calm down, but State Senator Joe Bolkcom (Dummycrat People's Republic of Johnson County) was a little less agitated for a Cedar Rapids Gazette story about tax changes being considered by Governor Branstad.

“The governor has an interesting proposal but I think we ought to work for a fairer system for working people in this state and that’s what we’ll be advocating for next session.” 

Bolkcom, pictured with Coke, kicked it up a notch for Radio Iowa.

Bolkcom ridicules Branstad’s “pick your tax system” idea

This coming from a man who doesn't want to give you your money back ($54) because he thinks it's better in his hands than yours and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Joe Kristan notes, the politicians’ need for cash is elastic and infinite, no matter how much they have to start with.  It bugs them when they already have your money, like the $54, and they have to give it back.

Not to be outdone, Dummycrat State Senator Jack ASS...err, Hatch ripped Brandstad as well, calling the plan “wrong,” “discredited” and “failed.”

This coming from a gubernatorial candidate whose first major policy decision was a call to raise taxes.

Democrats and taxes, the arrow always goes only one way.

Not to be left out, key emphasis on the left, the Ragister had to include comments from Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI, that's ICKY to us).

Democrats, liberals pan Gov. Terry Branstad’s flat tax idea

The Capitol Square Crapper can always be counted on to cite those crazies.

Bend Over

Iowa State Senator Joe Bolkcom, Dummycrat People's Republic of Johnson County, may want to put a seat on that bike because it's impaired his brain and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Bolkcom accused David Roederer, executive director of the Iowa Chamber Alliance, of having “partisan blinders” that “might be in the way of a more objective view.”

Said the man who, with his party, is trying to ram a tax increase up our rears.

Mary Jane

Jimmy Morrison, leader of Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana, lit my fire when he told an Iowa Senate legislative panel --

“I’m not a criminal. I’m not a drug user. I’ve been turned into a criminal by our laws.”

So are all criminals and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The best part is this marijuana users disorder would not be covered by the legislation he was there to support, so he'd still be a criminal.

It looks like someone at the Cedar Rapids Gazette was high on something when they put this paragraph together...

Jeff Elton of Altoona told the two subcommittee members that he has run out of patient with the legislative inaction at the Statehouse and plans to move to Colorado or Oregon where he would be able to use medical marijuana inhaled through the help of a vaporizer to get relief from the nausea, vomiting, shakes and tremors associated with a paralyzed stomach condition.

Jeff's PATIENCE must have gone up in smoke.

State Senator Joe Bolkcom, Dummycrat/People's Republic of Johnson County, believes Iowans are ahead of lawmakers in supporting limited access to marijuana for therapeutic purposes but not recreational uses.

I'm not getting that from these head shop cases.