Hang On To Your Wallets
Hang on to your wallets Minnesota - the legislature will soon be in session. Next Tuesday, the Minnesota Legislature starts to deliberate how it will tackle the estimated $5.2 billion budget deficit. Already some legislators are drawing "lines in the sand" between the cuts and their pet projects (such as education and social programs) even as Minnesota taxpayers are tightening the belts another notch tighter. Meanwhile, other legislators are going back to their district bearing the bad tidings of cuts to come.
If you want to have a say in how the deficit is resolved, the Minnesota legislature wants to hear FROM YOU. The House has set up a webform where you can tell them what you want to see happen to resolve the deficit. Let them know how you feel - TODAY!
If you want to have a say in how the deficit is resolved, the Minnesota legislature wants to hear FROM YOU. The House has set up a webform where you can tell them what you want to see happen to resolve the deficit. Let them know how you feel - TODAY!
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posted by The Lady Logician at
9:01 PM
2 Comments:
OK, I've done as you suggested. Somehow I doubt that my suggestion will reach the top of the pile. It was to simply go back to the budget of the last biennium, which was roughly $5 billion less than the current one and thus balanced. Call it a "retroactive freeze" in spending. I also "suggested" that "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should any tax be raised, on anybody."
Why do I think this idea will never see the light of day? With luck, all I will get is a nasty rejoinder by email, and not jack-booted thugs at my door.
J. Ewing
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Anonymous, at 10:15 AM
I hate to say this old friend but with the budget gap as big as it is tax increases may have to be on the table. However, they need to be a last resort.
LL
By
The Lady Logician, at 8:14 PM
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