Officials at the Minnesota Department of Revenue are saying Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Horner has not submitted his budget plan for review, but that Horner’s campaign contacted them to see if the tax plan would work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
At the most recent debate last week, Horner said he submitted his budget plan for a review…<\/p>\n
Horner: “We’re going to take medical services off of the table. We won’t tax those. We won’t tax prescription drugs or medical devices and the numbers do add up.<\/p>\n
Republican Tom Emmer: No they don’t.<\/p>\n
Horner: The Revenue Department says they did.<\/p>\n
Emmer: They have not and you have to be honest about it.<\/p>\n
Horner: I’m just curious as to where your information is that the Department of Revenue has said my numbers don’t add up because the Department of Revenue told me that the numbers do add up.<\/p>\n
Emmer: Well put it out there. We’ve asked and haven’t been given anything that supports that.<\/p>\n
Horner: Tom, That’s just not true, you know that’s not true.<\/p>\n
Emmer: What we have been shown is that you have to make much broader attempt.<\/p>\n
Horner: That’s just a blatant lie.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“Blatant lie?”<\/p>\n
Hm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Independence” Party candidate Tom Horner’s been telling voters that his budget plan – calling for about $2 Billion in tax increases, which is half of Mark Dayton’s planned hikes (which will leave \u00a0a $1 Bilion deficit) and about $2Billion more than Emmer’s plan (which will balance the budget) – has been vetted by the Minnesota […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13942,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions\/13942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}