Mark Dayton vetoes the GOP’s $900 million budget proposal yesterday. \u00a0His stated reason – at least, the one for consumption by the not-very-well-informed was that Dayton didn’t want to “…force local government to raise property taxes”.<\/p>\n
Which is lunacy, of course; as we’ve discussed in this space many times, “Local Government Aid” is merely a money-laundering scam to fob city spending (by spendthrift DFL city councils cut from the same cloth as Mark Dayton) off on state taxpayers; since the largely-GOP-voting cities outside the top five – mostly outer ‘burbs and outstate – rarely actually get <\/em>LGA. Minneapolis, Saint Paul and Duluth get vastly more LGA per capita than the rest of the state.<\/p>\n Why shouldn’t <\/em>cities be accountable to their own voters for their own spending?<\/p>\n But I digress. \u00a0This is the game Dayton wants to play?<\/p>\n Dayton wants to turn Minnesota into a cold California, <\/strong>taxing and spending and telling the taxpayers, especially the business and investing classes ,”like it or lump it”.<\/p>\n Senate Majority leader Koch has the Governor pretty well dialed in:<\/p>\n