After reading Minnesota needs legislators who can do the math, Chaz Miller's letter to the editor of the east central Minnesota Post Review, we have to scratch our head about the Daudtful accounting offered by the House Republican majority:
State Representatives Bob Barrett and Brian Johnson just put out similar columns in area papers, and their numbers provided don’t possible add up!
The House Republicans top goal this session is transportation and tax relief. For highway and bridge funding, they have a $7 billion funding plan without raising taxes; to do this they propose redirecting sales tax that currently goes into the general fund from transportation related purchases like auto parts and car rentals to roads and bridges.
This is where the math doesn’t add up! If billions of dollars come out of the general fund, how can they possibly fund their much boasted about increases to nursing homes and education?
They can’t provide the tax cuts they’re talking about, spend seven billion on roads, continue to fund education and nursing homes without tax increases, the math just doesn’t work.
They both also talked about last session a $2 billion tax cut; if that would have passed with the State’s $900 million surplus, there’d be a $1.1 billion. They better not cut education, because Minnesota needs legislators who can do the math!
Doesn't sound like being able to pay off those promises is in the cards.
Photo: Barbarians at the gate.
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