Post by mndapa1 on May 26, 2009 19:29:54 GMT -6
“If the DFL cannot balance this budget without reaching into Minnesotans’ pockets and increasing our already uncompetitive taxes in ways that will kill job growth, I’m prepared to make the tough decisions they’ve avoided and take action to balance the budget.” Gov. Pawlenty May 14, 2009
May 19th, 2009
Early Sunday afternoon, the DFLers came out of their caucus meeting at the state Capitol like a football team that had just been given a Rockne-like pep talk. There was fire in their eyes.
“Let’s go!” said Rep. Jeff Hayden, DFL-Minneapolis, as they passed by his desk in the last row of the chamber.
They’d nod their heads at Hayden.
Anyhow, it was a passionate debate and the DFLers thought they had a shot at winning.
They were wrong.
In the end, they didn’t sway a single Republican vote. All 87 DFLers supported overriding Pawlenty’s veto of GAMC, all 37 Republicans supported their governor, meaning the DFL was three votes shy of override.
The air went out of the DFL. If they couldn’t get three Republicans to side with them in supporting the poorest of the poor, they knew they had no chance of overriding the governor’s veto of the omnibus tax bill that would have created $1 billion in new taxes as part of the fix of a $4.6 billion dollar budget gap.
Oh, DFLers acted as if they still had a chance to convince three Republicans to support an override. They talked about how they — the DFLers — had been the responsible party in trying to fix the budget by using a combination of cuts and tax increases to create balance.
The Republicans responded by saying the DFLers had been irresponsibly wasting time for the first four months of the session.
source: www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/05/18/8878/budget_battle_dflers_lose_so_now_what
Later that day....
This is just shameful. Watch this video clip from the final minutes of the 2009 session in the Minnesota Senate.
Here is a must read on the Budget and the crisis here in Minnesota:
online.wsj.com/article/SB124295250785545573.html
Will people in this state wise up? They elected these nitwits democrats .... it is time to send them their pink slips and tell them to stop living in FAntASYlAND!!!!
May 19th, 2009
Early Sunday afternoon, the DFLers came out of their caucus meeting at the state Capitol like a football team that had just been given a Rockne-like pep talk. There was fire in their eyes.
“Let’s go!” said Rep. Jeff Hayden, DFL-Minneapolis, as they passed by his desk in the last row of the chamber.
They’d nod their heads at Hayden.
Anyhow, it was a passionate debate and the DFLers thought they had a shot at winning.
They were wrong.
In the end, they didn’t sway a single Republican vote. All 87 DFLers supported overriding Pawlenty’s veto of GAMC, all 37 Republicans supported their governor, meaning the DFL was three votes shy of override.
The air went out of the DFL. If they couldn’t get three Republicans to side with them in supporting the poorest of the poor, they knew they had no chance of overriding the governor’s veto of the omnibus tax bill that would have created $1 billion in new taxes as part of the fix of a $4.6 billion dollar budget gap.
Oh, DFLers acted as if they still had a chance to convince three Republicans to support an override. They talked about how they — the DFLers — had been the responsible party in trying to fix the budget by using a combination of cuts and tax increases to create balance.
The Republicans responded by saying the DFLers had been irresponsibly wasting time for the first four months of the session.
source: www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/05/18/8878/budget_battle_dflers_lose_so_now_what
Later that day....
This is just shameful. Watch this video clip from the final minutes of the 2009 session in the Minnesota Senate.
Here is a must read on the Budget and the crisis here in Minnesota:
online.wsj.com/article/SB124295250785545573.html
Like most states, Minnesota has been facing a huge budget shortfall — an estimated $4.6 billion over two years. These dire financial straits didn’t deter the DFL-controlled legislature (the DFL is Minnesota’s chapter of the Democratic Party), which got to work on big new spending bills. Included were not just the usual increases in appropriations but gems like $1.2 million in grants for TV and film producers and $200,000 for a youth environmental education program. Recession? What recession?
To fill in the hole they’d blown in the upcoming fiscal budget the DFL then proceeded to float every tax hike known to Garrison Keillor. A short list: A new top income tax rate of 9% (the fourth highest in the nation); across-the-board income tax increases; sales taxes on Internet downloads; the end of the local property tax cap (enacted only last year); alcohol taxes; cigarette taxes; eliminating the deduction for an organ donation (no joke); and killing the home mortgage interest deduction.
Will people in this state wise up? They elected these nitwits democrats .... it is time to send them their pink slips and tell them to stop living in FAntASYlAND!!!!
