Dayton has changed the rhetoric on his tax plan and now claims the $130,000 for individuals and $150,000 for couples was adjusted income, not gross income.

I’m being charitable when I say “change”, by the way – on this blog, I busted Dayton a few weeks back, contradicting his own website, in a piece aptly entitled “Blowing Sunshine Up Minnesota’s Skirt”.

All those fact checkers who’ll be queuing up to go over Tom Emmer plan, which should start coming out in the next week or so, would never allow this type of flip flop (or fumble? We may never know!) to go unnoticed. Why hasn’t Dayton added this important clarification to the budget plan on his website? (PDF file)

And here’s a question: I’m presuming Dayton’s assumptions about revenues were based on the original statement – that it was based on gross income, rather than adjusted income.  How does that change that $4 billion figure that Dayton claims the state will extract from those “rich” cops, nurses, programmers, pharmacists, entrepreneurs…

…and all the other families who have the misfortune to have worked hard and earned a decent living?