\u201cShutdown provisions:<\/strong>\u00a0No one wants to raise the specter of government shutdowns in the current Legislature, so DFL lawmakers took a quieter route to assure government continues to work even if lawmakers don\u2019t approve a budget in time. Tucked into the House omnibus state government and veterans bill, which passed off the floor on the first Saturday session of the year, DFL lawmakers included a proposal that would continue all budget appropriations for one year even if lawmakers fail to approve a budget by July 1. Just two years ago, parts of state government were shut down for more than three weeks when the governor and the Legislature couldn\u2019t agree on a way to balance a more than $5 billion budget deficit.\u201d<\/p>\nYou know, maybe Republicans should take them up on it.\u00a0 Fail to pass a budget, continue all spending at current levels.\u00a0 Basically, it\u2019s a freeze.\u00a0 Just leave spending frozen for, say, 10 years or so, until the economy catches up.\u00a0 No cuts, just no increases, a complete freeze at 2013 levels.<\/p>\n
That would give Legislatures some time off, too, so they wouldn\u2019t have to work so hard and wouldn\u2019t need a raise. Hey, a win-win all around!<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’d give the GOP time to refocus on its actual message, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Perhaps guided by the Obama Administration\u2019s experience with the Sequester, it seems Minnesota Democrats don\u2019t want to face another shut-down so they\u2019re inserted a clever provision in their budget proposal\u00a0to dodge it. \u201cShutdown provisions:\u00a0No one wants to raise the specter of government shutdowns in the current Legislature, so DFL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36267","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=36267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36268,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36267\/revisions\/36268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}