I sorta spiked the ball in the endzone yesterday with the news that Gov. Dayton had, more or less, accepted the GOP’s budget deal.<\/p>\n
Was I premature? \u00a0Of course. \u00a0But as I noted yesterday, even if they call the play back, \u00a0spiking the ball is fun. \u00a0And what the heck – I was happy, and there’s nothing libs hate more than unsanctioned happiness.<\/p>\n
The deal – accepting the GOP’s budget, in exchange for an eduction budget shift (a bit of accounting flummery), $500 million in bonding, and backing off Keith Downey’s “15 by 15” plan to reduce the state workforce by 15% by 2015, and of the “social bills” – everything from stem cell research restrictions to Voter ID.<\/p>\n
Dayton did not get his big goal – a tax hike to chastize entrepreneurs. \u00a0He got his “compromise” budget number, sort of – by using the shift, not via his pride and joy, the highest income tax rate in the nation.<\/p>\n
Gary Gross over at LFR<\/em> notes:<\/p>\n I don\u2019t have a problem with the removal of the so-called social issues from the budget bill. There\u2019s plenty of time to debate those issues. I\u2019m ok with removing Keith Downey\u2019s 15 by 15 reform with one condition: that Rep. King Banaian\u2019s HF2 priority-based budget reform legislation, including his Sunset Commission provision, be part of the final package.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That’s the money line right there; beyond making government “live within its means” – which the GOP did, albeit not as far within its means as I’d like – we need to get budget reforms out of this session.<\/p>\n Getting serious, significant budget reforms out of this session has got to be the deal-breaker. \u00a0 I’m hoping our legislative freshmen come back for the special session loaded for bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I sorta spiked the ball in the endzone yesterday with the news that Gov. Dayton had, more or less, accepted the GOP’s budget deal. Was I premature? \u00a0Of course. \u00a0But as I noted yesterday, even if they call the play back, \u00a0spiking the ball is fun. \u00a0And what the heck – I was happy, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-21071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21071","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=21071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34557,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21071\/revisions\/34557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}