Did your salary rise 8% last year?<\/p>\n
Why, no – I’ll bet it held even if you were lucky and dropped if you weren’t.<\/p>\n
Did the state or national economygrow 8%?<\/p>\n
You’re joking, right?<\/p>\n
Minnesota is spending, and taxing, 8% more next year than last.<\/p>\n
Are the roads going to be 8% better?<\/p>\n
Are your kids going to learn 8% more?<\/p>\n
Will the Achievement Gap dip 8%? \u00a0(Given that the MNDFL aboachieve graduation testing, probably the opposite).<\/p>\n
Will the unions that bought and paid for this Legislature hire 8% more dues-payinggovernment workers?<\/p>\n
Now you’re getting warm.<\/p>\n
BONUS QUESTION to everyone who sat out that last election, or voted third-party, because of some GOP transgression or another; was it worth it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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