4 Responses to “Check It Out For Yourself”

1. dave_h Says:
   September 15th, 2010 at 9:31 am

   For all the press Emmer had no plan and Dayton has a detailed plan there sure is a lot of holes in his plan.

2. golfdoc50 Says:
   September 15th, 2010 at 9:48 am

   If households ran budgets the way the DFL (and Dayton) want to, they’d be overdrawn at the bank, unable to make house payments and one step away from bankruptcy. Gee, that’s what just happened in the past couple of years, isn’t it? Class, what have we learned from this?
   Earlier in the year, progressives were clucking their tongues at the city of Colorado Springs, which because of budget shortfalls, chose to cut back and/or eliminate some services. Last I heard, nothing newsworthy happened. Apparently people are surviving just fine with less government. I assume if this were not the case, there would have been weekly reports from the MSM about the misfortunes of the Colorado city.

3. Scott Hughes Says:
   September 15th, 2010 at 12:18 pm

   “Earlier in the year, progressives were clucking their tongues at the city of Colorado Springs, which because of budget shortfalls, chose to cut back and/or eliminate some services. Last I heard, nothing newsworthy happened.”

   Reminds me of what happened here in MN the last time a good portion of government was shut down when there was no budget agreement. Few could tell the difference in the overall level of service.

4. Terry Says:
   September 15th, 2010 at 1:32 pm

   A decade ago the MN biennial budget was ~$24 billion.
   Here are the number by year since 1960:
   http://www.mmb.state.mn.us/doc/budget/report-spend/may10.pdf
   These numbers are hard to find. They shouldn’t be. Conservative candidates should be trumpeting them. Most people will look at them and compare them to their own wages, which haven’t gone up by 50% in the last decade.
   It’s the same all over. My state has a population only one-fifth as large as Minnesota’s population, its economy is entirely different, and its budget has increased by about 50% in the last decade.
   This growth in government is unsustainable. You cannot tax your way out of it.

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