The 2007 legislative session offered the Minnesota DFL an opportunity to shed a bit of its hard-taxing reputation. With a projected $2.2 billion state budget surplus, legislators could have funded champagne-style programs while avoiding the headache of higher taxes. Given the surplus, some hard-pressed Minnesota taxpayers were even dreaming of a rebate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sober up, taxpayers. In the opening hours of the legislative session, the DFL-dominated Senate went on a tax increase binge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
More of that “bipartisan cooperation” that the DFL and the Strib were always yapping about when the GOP was in control, obviously.<\/p>\n
Read the whole thing and weep.\u00a0 It’s going to be a brutal couple of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We warned you. Vote DFL, or stay home because “the Republicans suck” or “they’re all the same”? Pay through the nose: The 2007 legislative session offered the Minnesota DFL an opportunity to shed a bit of its hard-taxing reputation. With a projected $2.2 billion state budget surplus, legislators could have funded champagne-style programs while avoiding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}