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• Minn.’s Dayton wants to tax wealthy to fix deficit
• ‘Kill Switch’ Internet bill alarms privacy experts
• ‘America’s toughest sheriff’ considering Arizona Senate run
• Union Workers, Republicans Spar Over Compensation
• Senate Votes to Extend Patriot Act Provisions
• Michelle v. Michele: The Breastfeeding Battle

Minn.’s Dayton wants to tax wealthy to fix deficit Posted: 15 Feb 2011 04:55 PM PST By MARTIGA LOHN, Bloomberg BusinessWeek Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton is looking to the wealthy to erase about half the state’s $6.2 billion deficit. The Democrat proposed new top income taxes Tuesday that would give Minnesota the nation’s highest income tax rate. Dayton’s plan would raise almost $3 billion through a new 10.95 percent income tax rate, 3 percent temporary income surtax and property tax on million-dollar homes. The taxes are part of a two-year, $37 billion budget proposal that includes cuts for state-subsidized health care and nursing homes and more money for schools. To read more, visit: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9LDEJ5G0.htm

‘Kill Switch’ Internet bill alarms privacy experts Posted: 15 Feb 2011 04:43 PM PST By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO — A raging debate over new legislation, and its impact on the Internet, has tongues wagging and fingers pointing from Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C. Just as the Egyptian government recently forced the Internet to go dark, U.S. officials could flip the switch if the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset legislation becomes law, say its critics. Proponents of the bill, which is expected to be reintroduced in the current session of Congress, dismiss the detractors as ill-informed — even naive. The ominously nicknamed Kill Switch bill is sure to be a flashpoint of discussion at the RSA Conference, the nation’s largest gathering of computer-security experts that takes place here this week. To read more, visit: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2011-02-15-kill-switch_N.htm

‘America’s toughest sheriff’ considering Arizona Senate run Posted: 15 Feb 2011 04:37 PM PST By Daniel Strauss, The Hill, The Washington Scene Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Monday he is open to the possibility of running for the seat of retiring Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) in 2012. Arpaio, the conservative sheriff famous for his hard-line anti-immigration stances, made the remarks in light of a poll released Monday by Summit Consulting Group Inc., which is fundraising for Arpaio’s reelection campaign for sheriff. The company’s Chad Willems is Arpaio’s campaign manager. Arpaio said the deciding factor is neither the money, which he said he could raise, nor his ability to do the job. Rather, he said, it’s whether he would be willing to leave his job as sheriff. Arpaio has served as sheriff for five terms and is currently running for a sixth. But, he said, that doesn’t mean he won’t run for the Senate. To read more, visit: http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/8231-americas-toughest-sheriff-considering-arizona-senate-run

Union Workers, Republicans Spar Over Compensation Posted: 15 Feb 2011 04:33 PM PST By Tom Murray, TMJ4NBC MADISON – Early Tuesday morning at UWM in Milwaukee, graduate assistant Lee Abbott boarded a Madison-bound bus. He is worried about paying more for health care under Governor Scott Walker's Budget Repair Bill. "On our salaries that we get paid here, we would not be able to afford them for our two children," Abbott told TODAY'S TMJ4 reporter Tom Murray. Abbott joined thousands of city, county and state workers in Madison. "Let our message of fairness and equity be heard," a speaker told an assembled crowd estimated at over 10,000 outside the Capitol. To read more, visit: http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/116271554.html

Senate Votes to Extend Patriot Act Provisions Posted: 15 Feb 2011 04:29 PM PST From FOX News/AP WASHINGTON — The Senate has voted to extend roving wiretap authority and other provisions of anti-terrorism law for 90 days, giving lawmakers more time to discuss the future of the law enforcement tools that some consider an infringement on civil liberties. To read more, visit: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/15/senate-votes-extend-patriot-act-provisions/

Michelle v. Michele: The Breastfeeding Battle Posted: 15 Feb 2011 04:25 PM PST By Rebecca Kaplan, National Review Michelle Obama has found herself the target of criticism from yet another high-profile conservative woman who says that the first lady’s initiatives promote a "nanny state.” Reports surfaced this week that Obama will highlight breastfeeding as a path to reducing childhood obesity and will try to remove barriers for women who choose that method of feeding their infant. The Internal Revenue Service helped the cause when it announced last week that it would offer a tax break on breastfeeding supplies, though it is unclear whether Obama has encouraged women to take advantage of the tax breaks. But that didn't stop Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., from firing away at the first lady on Tuesday afternoon on conservative host Laura Ingraham's radio show. “I’ve given birth to five babies, and I breast-fed every single one,” Bachmann said. “To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies? You wanna talk about the nanny state?"

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