Minnesotans are waking up this money and unless they turn on the TV or read their newspapers would be otherwise unaware that the Minnesota state government is shut down. The sun still rose. The wind still blows. From the Star-Tribune, the result of electing a Democrat as Governor:
Broken deals, bitter words and a state shuts downTalks imploded Thursday between DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders in the final hours before a midnight deadline, and Minnesota began a historic government shutdown.
This is exactly how it went down here in Michigan a few years ago under Granholm. The issue in Minnesota is the insane assertion by Mark Dayton that the state steal more money for the producers in the middle of a long recession:
"This is a night of deep sorrow for me," Dayton said in an address at 10 p.m. that was punctuated by jeers and hisses from Republicans, including some lawmakers.
The governor said his last offer would have raised income taxes only on those earning more than $1 million a year -- an estimated 7,700 Minnesotans, or 0.3 percent of all taxpayers, according to the Revenue Department.
The usual Democrat demagoguery ensues:
Republicans rejected the proposal, Dayton said, because they "prefer to protect the richest handful of Minnesotans at the expense of everyone else."
You know - because
letting people that actually produce
keep their own money is a cost to other people according to liberals. In this world view, all money is the governments and letting you keep any of it is benevolence from it. It's absurd. The GOP was right in saying that more taxes would hurt the state economy:
Republican leaders made their own statement, saying Dayton's proposal for dealing with the projected $5 billion deficit would cause irreparable harm to the state's economy for generations.
"We will not saddle our children and grandchildren with mounds of debts, with promises for funding levels that will not be there in the future," said House Speaker Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove. "This is debt that they can't afford. It's debt that we can't afford right now."
And Dayton made the insane implication that stealing money from people to fund an illegitimate function of government (cutting checks to other people that you favor) is patriotic:
Dayton struck a combative stance, saying the July 4th holiday "reminds us that there are causes and principles worth struggling for" and worth "suffering temporary hardship to achieve."
Good grief...
