Some things never change

For anyone talking about taxes and state funding I couldn’t help feel regret in a recent book passage that I read. In His Excellency George Washington written by Joseph Ellis I found this fascinating little quote on page 59 referencing our first President. “He was not even present at the session of the House of Burgesses in April 1768 when the delegates protested the Townshend Act, a clever (ultimately too clever) measure imposing new duties on colonial imports which the British ministry claimed were not, strictly speaking, taxes.” How interesting that last year certain powers in Minnesota government took their tax policy from the failed notions of King George III, the guy who tried to subjugate the Americas. Health Impact Fees should be taxes and identified as such rather than wasting our time playing 250-year-old games that Americans have already soundly rebutted.
Jeremy Wieland