From the bottom of my heart
After listening to legislators prattle on about the state’s current recession for the last month-plus, the geniuses at the Capitol finally figured out a solution: $6.6 billion less in disposable income for taxpayers.
While the feds seem to understand the basic idea that the way to battle a recession is to put more money in people’s pockets, the state apparently cares much more about filling its own.
Less than a two years removed from the last election the taxpayers of Minnesota now suffer one of the largest tax increases in history, even as oil prices continue to rise, and the cost of goods and services as a result.
The six Republicans who voted to override have been “demoted” by party leadership and they deserve it. Here in Chisago County, Rep. Jeremy Kalin and Sen. Rick Olseen gleefully supported the gigantic tax increase all the way.
Minnesota is again one of the highest taxed states in the entire nation. Luckily, it won’t have to suffer through the recession it has been warning us about recently. That task will be left solely to us taxpayers, who can apparently expect only to be left swinging in the breeze by a state government that places a higher priority on its budget than it does our own.