{"id":10348,"date":"2011-07-06T18:26:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T22:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10348"},"modified":"2011-07-06T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T22:27:11","slug":"minnesota-governor-shuts-down-the-state-to-raise-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10348\/minnesota-governor-shuts-down-the-state-to-raise-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Governor Shuts Down the State to Raise Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annette Meeks, CEO of the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/otherviews\/125044304.html\" target=\"_blank\">this damning editorial<\/a> of Democratic Governor Mark Dayton\u2019s decision to shut down the state\u2019s government rather than sign a balanced budget without tax increases.<\/p>\n<p>Among the bevy of withering arguments against Dayton\u2019s action, Meeks points out that the budget passed by the legislature actually increased state spending by 6 percent while filling a $5 billion deficit.\u00a0 The problem for Dayton: no soak-the-rich \u201cmillionaires\u2019 tax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like President Barack <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2011\/07\/obama-warns-debt-ceiling-should-not-be-used-as-a-gun-to-extract-tax-breaks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama with the nation\u2019s debt ceiling<\/a>, Governor Dayton is playing a dangerous game for the sake of fiscal discrimination.\u00a0 Moreover, Dayton is unwilling to consider the state equivalent of a continuing budget resolution.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll give Meeks the last word:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, Republican legislative leaders, in a desperate move to stave off closing the government, proposed a &#8220;lights on&#8221; budget resolution that would have allowed services to continue while negotiations continued. In a crass, cynical move, Dayton rejected this good-natured offer.<\/p>\n<p>We are here for one reason &#8212; Dayton. He insists upon inflicting as much pain as possible for state residents and government employees. And he is doing this so that the Legislature will bend to his will and raise income taxes, launching Minnesota into the stratosphere of high income taxes.<\/p>\n<p>There are certain principles worth fighting for. Preserving a sound economic future for our state is one of those things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annette Meeks, CEO of the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, offers this damning editorial of Democratic Governor Mark Dayton\u2019s decision to shut down the state\u2019s government rather than sign a balanced budget without tax increases. Among the bevy of withering arguments against Dayton\u2019s action, Meeks points out that the budget passed by the legislature actually increased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2844,143,70,59,2845,2440,2843,2205],"class_list":["post-10348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-annette-meeks","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-deficit","tag-freedom-foundation-of-minnesota","tag-government-shutdown","tag-mark-dayton","tag-minnesota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10348"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10354,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions\/10354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}