Democrats Sneak Language into Omnibus Bill that Allows a Born Baby to Be Killed
A baby born from an unsuccessful abortion attempt will no longer have the right to receive care to protect its life according to language snuck into the massive 845 page Democrat Health & Human Services Omnibus bill (SF2995) that became publicly available just before midnight last night. They are rushing the bill to the floor today before their constitutionally required adjournment at the end of the day.
Here's how Democrats are allowing born babies to be killed:
Democrats are modifying current Minnesota law (Minnesota Statutes 2022, Section 145.423) by removing the language "preserve the life and health of the born alive infant" and replacing it with just "care for the infant."
Then they repeal the rest of Section 145.423 which requires a physician to "take all reasonable measures [...] to preserve the life and health of any born alive infant that is the result of the abortion."
Here's a snapshot of the Repealer in the Democrat's Health & Human Services Omnibus Bill:
This move is just plain evil. How can anyone in their right mind argue for this legislation? But based on how every other radical, omnibus bill vote has gone, this is most likely going to receive complete Democrat support and will be signed by Governor Tim Walz.
Make no mistake about it - these Democrats have devalued life so much that even a born baby is no longer awarded protection.
Legislature Passes Business-Crushing Paid Family Leave Program
The Minnesota House and Senate have just passed one of the most extreme paid family leave programs in the nation. This proposal would impose a .7% tax on businesses, which would fund a statewide pool to pay for up to a whopping 20 weeks of time off of work.
At least half of the tax must be paid for by the employer, while the remainder can be paid for by the employee. This will hit small businesses the hardest, which cannot afford to lose an employee for 40% of the year. Big businesses like Target already have a paid family leave program in place, which lets them be exempt from this program.
Under this Paid Family Leave proposal, employees qualify if they have a “serious health condition,” which includes:
- Mental illness
- Injury
- Impairment
- “Conditions”
- Substance use disorders
Washington State has a similar program, which began in 2020. They cap their time off at 12 weeks, instead of Minnesota’s 20. Three years later, they had to raise their payroll tax from .6% to .8% to cover the program. There’s no doubt Minnesota will follow a similar path.
Minnesota is already hostile to small business, and this program could be the final nail in the coffin. Why would anyone live here when they could do their business in South Dakota, Iowa, or Wisconsin?
Thankfully, there is time to stop this madness. The program will not be implemented until 2026, which gives Minnesotans time to call their legislators – demanding they put a stop to this. If they won’t listen, Minnesotans have an opportunity to vote for more sane legislators in 2024.
Walz and Dems Deceived Voters; Now Raising YOUR Taxes
On the campaign trail last fall, Governor Walz and several swing district Democrats, like Sen Judy Seeberger, ran on an agenda of less taxes. Walz himself proudly boasted, "I've never raised taxes as governor." And they made multiple promises to eliminate the Social Security tax on seniors and return a substantial portion of the massive budget surplus.
Walz even tweeted four days before the election that he wanted to return $2,000 of overtaxed surplus money back to individuals.
Turns out, Walz and Flanagan had no intention of pushing to "get this done." With full Democrat control of the Minnesota government, putting money back in your pocket is not the objective of the Democrats. Here's a breakdown of what appears will be passed in the final days of the session.
Rebate Checks
The budget surplus is about $21 Billion. Which means that each taxpayer is owed up to $8,000 (if divided equally). Democrats final agreement on how much they will give back of OUR money is an insulting $260 per tax filer, and $260 for dependent children up to 3 total dependents. So the most a family in Minnesota will see of their money is $1,300. The total rebate program accounts for $1.1 Billion or a mere 5% of the total money that they overtaxed us by. The rest will go to funding all the Democrat's radical agenda and paybacks to their Special Interests.
Household Delivery Tax
For every package or food delivery sent to your home, Democrats want to add 75 cents. Even if the item is returned to the vendor, you will still be charged. Sound crazy? This tax has already passed in the Minnesota House. Luckily, it hasn't been fully embraced by the Senate, but that could change in any hour and rushed to the floor for a vote. Remember, Democrats say they only want to tax "the wealthy." What a LIE!
Metro Sales Tax Increase
Democrats also put a metro sales tax increase in their transportation bill which received support in the House and will likely be in the final omnibus bill that passes the Senate as well. This would tag on another .75% to the already high sales taxes of the 7 county metro area. Current tax rates range from 7.125% to 8.025%.
Gas Tax Increase
In another attempt by the Democrats to "tax the wealthy," a proposal to increase our tax on gasoline has resurfaced at the Capitol in the final days of the legislative session. If it's not already bad enough that gas prices are high due to politicians inflating our money supply, Walz and Democrat Party bosses want to increase the current 28.5 cent state gas tax and tie it to inflation.
Social Security Tax Stays for Some
There will be a total tax elimination of social security income for Minnesotans who have a Federal Adjusted Gross Income of $100k or lower. Tax filers between $100k and $140k will have a reduction in taxes. And those above, will still pay taxes. Way to stick up for our seniors!
$2.2 Billion Tax Increase Over Next Four Years for Business Owners
Minnesota is losing small business owners every year. There's a net decrease of high income earners leaving for states like Florida, according to data from the IRS. And now Democrats want to expedite that process by focusing a $2.2 Billion tax increase on job producing citizens. Here's a list of their potential revenue streams:
MN Senate Wants Constitutional Protection for Trans Athletes
Minnesota Democrats surprised everyone on Wednesday when they revived legislation that would provide constitutional protections for transgender athletes.
The Minnesota Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ballot initiative on Wednesday afternoon. If passed by the House, Minnesota voters would vote on whether or not the Minnesota Constitution gets its own version of the ERA.
SF 37 passed 43-23 with all Democrats, and Republican Senators Coleman, Draheim, Duckworth, Housley, Jasinski, and Miller. Senator Abler did not vote. This is nothing but bad news for conservatives.
This legislation, if passed, would ask voters in 2024: "Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended by adding a specific guarantee that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this state or any of its cities, counties, or other political subdivisions on account of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, ancestry, or national origin?”
Notice the provision on “gender identity or expression?” That means that under the Minnesota Constitution, biological men would be allowed to compete with biological women in high school sports, drag queens could perform shows in front of kids, and talks of gender ideology could not be stopped in the classroom.
While these things already happen in Minnesota, they may soon be protected by the constitution – which is incredibly difficult to repeal. If conservatives want to prevent this from happening, they must contact their state representatives. Call your state representatives now.
Walz and Democrats Open to Gas Tax Increase
As of writing, Minnesota’s average price for gas is $3.45. However, this could quickly change with Democrats in charge of state government.
Despite plans to wrap up the legislative session early, Governor Walz made a public statement saying that he is now open to an increase in Minnesota’s gas tax – which currently sits at 28.5 cents per gallon.
No number has been proposed for this increase as of writing, though the public will likely know in the coming days.
Remember that Tim Walz was gun-hoe about a 5-cent increase in 2019, which would increase by an additional 5 cents per year. If Walz had his way back then, the gas tax would currently be a whopping 48.5 cents per gallon!
This is exactly what Democrat Senator Ann Rest has said, Democrats have an “insatiable appetite for raising taxes.”
Thankfully, one Senate Democrat publicly stated that she would oppose a gas tax increase last October. In reference to the prospect of a gas tax increase, now-Senator Judy Seeberger states at a forum in Hastings that “I want to go on record as saying that I don’t, uh, support that at all.”
If @JudySeeberger is an honest person, this proposal should be DOA. At this point, that seems like a BIG "if." https://t.co/EeWjmfCyjf pic.twitter.com/NmPZSCkpRW
— Action 4 Liberty (@action_liberty) May 17, 2023
Of course, Seeberger also claimed that she was a moderate on the campaign trail. Now, voters in her district can see that she is a far-left extremist. They should also not be surprised if she goes back on her word to stop a gas tax increase.
Democrat Senator: ‘We Have an Insatiable Appetite for Raising Taxes’
Senator Ann Rest made a big admission last Friday, May 10th in the conference committee for HF 1938 – the Tax Policy Omnibus Bill. She told the committee that Democrats have an “insatiable appetite for raising taxes.”
To anyone who has been paying attention the last few months, this sounds like an obvious fact. Democrats have already passed crazy tax increases in 2023, including the metro sales tax increase and the proposed delivery tax.
Senator Ann “put me to” Rest’s sleepy admission comes at the peril of her own party, which campaigned on tax cuts. In fact, Democrats were bragging about “historic tax cuts” earlier this year. The final version of HF 1938 has yet to be seen, but it is likely that it will not be meeting the “historic” tax cut claim that Democrats have been making.
From COVID Lockdowns to a Deteriorating Economy, Depression Rates Continue to Climb
Depression rates in the United States continue to climb to historic rates, according to a poll released by Gallup this week. Almost a third of respondents say they've battled with depression at some point in their life. The number is up 10 points since 2015.
Gallup surveyed 5,167 adults across the United States. Survey participants were asked, "Has a doctor or nurse ever told you that you have depression?” and “Do you currently have or are you currently being treated for depression?” 29 percent of respondents in the affirmative to the first question. When it comes to currently being treated for depression, 17.8 percent of respondents said they are currently depressed.
As most people are aware, COVID era, politician induced lockdowns led to a big jump in depression, which is shown in the Gallup poll. However, the trend has continued beyond COVID lockdowns, leading many of us to believe that the deteriorating economic conditions today are a major contributor.
Here's the chart:
Woke, Bureaucratic Education Bill passes House
As the Legislature is coming to an end, the radical left is hiding woke ideas in omnibus bills that range from hundreds to thousands of pages. Stand alone bills addressing only one subject are a thing of the past, despite omnibus bills being unconstitutional.
The Education Finance Bill (HF2497) is the latest Democratic hit-job in our state. This nightmare includes every disaster idea from Democrats like spending our Surplus, burying schools with administrative regulations, forcing woke propaganda in your kid’s classroom, and implementing mandates that will harm our schools.
The Democrats claim that they want to “fully fund education” but are incapable of putting a number to what that exactly means. Really, Democrats want public schools to fail and live in a cyclical environment where they are fully dependent on the Legislature. This power-hungry bill is filled with overbearing mandates and regulations, some of which are unaffordable for our state.
The worst offense in this bill is the woke propaganda that they are forcing into schools. Democrats want to turn our children into mindless robots who will fight their social justice battles. Is it too much to ask that kids are not taught political propaganda in schools? Apparently that is too much to ask according to the Socialist Dems.
Minnesota public schools will now be mandated to have “Ethnic Studies” classes which will likely teach children that white people are evil and oppressors of society. Despite children not having a racist bone in their bodies, tyrannical Dems want to make them “Antiracist”. See definition of Ethnic Studies from the bill below:
This bill goes on to define “Antiracist”, “Culturally sustaining”, and “Institutional racism” in the most woke way possible. In the least racist time in the history of the world, Democrats want to capitalize on white guilt by suggesting that black people, natives, and others “continue to be harmed and erased through the education system”. What kind of fantasy land do they live in? The pretend oppression by the Left is dividing society and capturing the minds of weak people. See woke definitions below:
This bill then requires the Department of Education to hire staff for the purpose of propagandizing children on the issue of race. This top down policy gives no respect to local governments, school boards, parents, students, teachers, or taxpayers. Mandates like this are one of many reasons individuals are fleeing Minnesota. See mandate below:
To top off the nonsense, public and charter schools will be mandated to hold these Ethnic Studies brainwashing classes starting in the 2026-2027 school year. Democrats want your children to be force-fed BS and in return, they won’t have to take a math, science, social studies, or language class! Instead of learning a valuable skill, your children will learn to hate white people! See mandate below:
This bill passed the State House with a party line vote of 70-62 and is headed to the Senate before Tim Walz signs this nightmare. See vote below:
Democratic Senators and Representatives are in lockstep with the evil, big government, anti-freedom agenda that is going after our kids. Pay attention to your child’s curriculum because it may become propaganda before you even know it.
New Anti-1A Law Prohibits Cops from Joining Political Groups
SF 2909 harbored a lot of garbage legislation, including crazy gun control and protections for pedophiles. The Action 4 Liberty team has discovered that this bill also contains language that prohibits police officers from joining political groups that will soon be deemed “hate organizations.”
The bill passed the Minnesota House on Monday night, and will soon be signed into law by Governor Walz. This new problematic language begins on line 205.25:
At first glance, the prohibition on joining hate groups sounds halfway reasonable – up until the bill defines what they believe a hate group is. Specifically, line 206.12 says that a "hate group" that “advocates for differences in the right to vote, speak, assemble, travel, or maintain citizenship based on a person’s perceived race, gender identity, public assistance status, or any protected class as defined in Minnesota Statutes or federal law.” – which now includes pedophiles.
Put simply, you are not allowed to support or be part of a group that questions systems of voting. Does this sound familiar?
Membership to a supposed “hate group” can be as simple as engaging with their social media, or donating to their cause.
Action 4 Liberty, for example, has questioned the validity of gender ideology, election laws, and threats to religious liberty on multiple occasions. Under this language, we would be classified as a hate group.
This is a clear violation of the 1st amendment and should be struck down by the courts as such. Only the radical-left could concoct such a heinous violation of Minnesotan’s rights.
Democrat Gun Control & Pedophile Bill Heading to Governor Walz' Desk
Only one Democrat legislator in the state of Minnesota had the "courage" to break free from the grasp of the Metro Democrat bosses and vote against the dangerous Gun Control Pedophile bill. Only one!
The Party of JFK has turned into a lunatic, cult where children are paraded in front of overtly sexualized adults and capable of receiving genital mutilation surgery. And those opposed to these insane ideas - they're labeled "hate groups."
The Gun Control & Pedophile bill (SF2909), also known as the Judiciary and Public Safety Omnibus bill, is an unconstitutional, multi-subject, 522 page disaster of legislation. It institutes Red Flag gun seizures and universal background checks. And it also amends the Minnesota Human Rights Act to make pedophilia a legitimate "sexual orientation."
We broke the story on Thursday about the bizarre pro-pedophilia language. The Minnesota corporate media has ignored the story and Democrat legislators have shrugged it off as not a big deal. But the pro-pedophile language affects Minnesota's "Unfair Discrimination Practices" and would now allow the "sexual attachment of children by adults" to be considered a protected class.
Here's the vote for the Minnesota House:
Here's the Senate vote:
The bill is headed to Liberal Governor Walz' desk, who has signaled support for this EXTREME legislation. God help Minnesota!