The Warehouse tax is going to cause all sorts of damage – and some GOP legislators want to do something about it:
Reps. Tim Kelly of Red Wing and Pat Garofalo of Farmington said lawmakers must act soon because the looming sales tax on warehousing services is already prompting businesses to delay planned warehouse expansions.
But the DFL could scarcely care less:
But a spokesman for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor governor dismissed the request as “a stunt, not a solution.
“The Legislature is coming back more than a month before this tax would take effect, which is more than enough time, if revenues permit, to review and possibly revise this tax,” Bob Hume, Dayton’s deputy chief of staff, said in a statement.
Hume is speaking like a bureaucrat and party stooge who thinks the private sector is the same of a hip club in Northeast Minneapolis.
The tax is already killing jobs!
Kelly said two large Red Wing businesses are delaying expansions because of the tax, and the prospect of losing those new jobs calls for quick action.
Stephen Lawrence, president and CEO of Lawrence Transportation Services in Red Wing, said a 6.5 percent sales tax on his company’s services would put them at a competitive disadvantage with firms in neighboring states, none of which has a warehousing tax. He said his business is considering building facilities in Wisconsin.
Governor Dayton was apparently waiting for Alida Messinger to tell Carrie Lucking what he was supposed to say about this.
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