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Is the current situation in Minnesota what the USA as a whole can expect from the GOP oligarchy?
Republicans are are determined to commit economic treason to protect the tax breaks of their wealthy masters at all costs.
Minnesota held hostage: Day 7
GOP Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch and GOP House Speaker Kurt Zellers met briefly with Gov. Dayton.
Koch refused to say whether GOP leaders would present a budget offer to Dayton.
Instead, she insisted that Republicans won't support a tax increase to close the budget gap.
"If the governor still has his tax increase proposal on the table then that hasn't changed that," Koch said.
The meeting comes one day after Dayton presented a budget offer to GOP legislative leaders.
One option in his offer is a temporary income tax surcharge on people with an annual salary of $1 million or more.
The other option would be to increase taxes on cigarettes by $1 a pack.
Both of those plans also rely on a surcharge on hospitals and HMOs and further delaying payments to schools.
Keep in mind that the Minnesota deficit of $5 billion was generated during the reign of Teabag Tim Pawlenty, whose only regret is that the shutdowns he presided over as governor didn't last longer.
Will the Teabaggers keep changing the game and moving the goalposts in Washington as they hold the credit of the American nation hostage?
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/co...linaut/archive/2011/07/shutdown_day_7_1.shtml
Republicans are are determined to commit economic treason to protect the tax breaks of their wealthy masters at all costs.
Minnesota held hostage: Day 7
GOP Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch and GOP House Speaker Kurt Zellers met briefly with Gov. Dayton.
Koch refused to say whether GOP leaders would present a budget offer to Dayton.
Instead, she insisted that Republicans won't support a tax increase to close the budget gap.
"If the governor still has his tax increase proposal on the table then that hasn't changed that," Koch said.
The meeting comes one day after Dayton presented a budget offer to GOP legislative leaders.
One option in his offer is a temporary income tax surcharge on people with an annual salary of $1 million or more.
The other option would be to increase taxes on cigarettes by $1 a pack.
Both of those plans also rely on a surcharge on hospitals and HMOs and further delaying payments to schools.
Keep in mind that the Minnesota deficit of $5 billion was generated during the reign of Teabag Tim Pawlenty, whose only regret is that the shutdowns he presided over as governor didn't last longer.
Will the Teabaggers keep changing the game and moving the goalposts in Washington as they hold the credit of the American nation hostage?
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/co...linaut/archive/2011/07/shutdown_day_7_1.shtml