{"id":19871,"date":"2011-05-06T06:54:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T12:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19871"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:36:28","slug":"dayton-to-legislature-compromise-is-for-mere-peasants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19871","title":{"rendered":"Dayton To Legislature: “Compromise Is For Mere Peasants”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Governor Dayton\u00a0tells the legislature to “suck it”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Gov. Mark Dayton says Republican legislative leaders are underestimating his resolve if they think he’ll back off his plan to raise taxes on Minnesota’s top earners.<\/p>\n

Fewer than three weeks remain in the legislative session, and Dayton and legislative leaders aren’t close to reaching agreement on a plan to erase a $5 billion budget deficit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dayton seems to be counting on the GOP reverting to its traditional behavior – bowing to media pressure and DFL browbeating. \u00a0Their most recent model – the “Gang of Six”, the GOP “moderates” two years ago who caved in on a DFL tax and spend bill.<\/p>\n

And we know what happened there, don’t we?<\/p>\n

It’s not the same GOP as it was two and four years ago<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Dayton said the Republican budget is more than $1 billion out of balance, and that they should agree on spending cuts instead of relying on budget savings that will never materialize…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…according to a Management and Budget director that serves at his discretion, using formulas that are not designed to account in any way for savings.<\/p>\n

“This is real to so many thousands of Minnesotans and they won’t now, two months away from the beginning of the next biennium, even tell the people of Minnesota what it is they’re willing to do to them. And that I do not respect,” Dayton said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dayton is, of course, unwillling to point out that down his path lies madness; 20% spending hikes in this biennium will be followed by 20% more in 2013, and more after that. \u00a0And if the economy improves, and tax receipts climb with it? \u00a0All of that will be spent too.<\/p>\n

Dayton doesn’t want to talk about that.<\/p>\n

Dayton said there’s enough time to reach a deal but worries that Republicans aren’t going to budge on their opposition to tax increases. He said Minnesotans want them to compromise.<\/p>\n

“They want us to work out our differences. So it seems to me that they have that responsibility. I have that responsibility,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

57% of Minnesotans voted against Dayton. \u00a0He’s the one that needs to compromise.<\/p>\n

The GOP? \u00a0 No way. \u00a0They got sent there with a mandate. \u00a0They had best follow it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor Dayton\u00a0tells the legislature to “suck it”: Gov. Mark Dayton says Republican legislative leaders are underestimating his resolve if they think he’ll back off his plan to raise taxes on Minnesota’s top earners. Fewer than three weeks remain in the legislative session, and Dayton and legislative leaders aren’t close to reaching agreement on a plan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,144,69,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-governor","category-socialism","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19871","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=19871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19873,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19871\/revisions\/19873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}