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DAYTON STANDS FIRM ON JOB-KILLING TAX INCREASES, LEADERS PROMISE DFL WILL FALL IN LINE
By Andy Post | May 17, 2011
Yesterday marked a new chapter in Minnesota’s budget battle as the end of session quickly approaches at the end of this week. Gov. Mark Dayton announced he will ‘concede’ part of his tax plan and only raise $1.8 billion of the deficit in new taxes on Minnesota’s wealthiest individuals (also known as some of Minnesota’s greatest investors, job creators, and philanthropists).
GOP House and Senate members responded in-kind with a massive press conference in which they demonstrated their unity behind a strategy to close the budget gap that will absolutely not include any further tax increases on Minnesotans (video below, via LookTrueNorth’s Nancy LaRoche).
DFL leaders Tom Bakk and Paul Thissen continue to demonstrate their inability to actively participate in the budget negotiations because of the disconnect between Dayton’s office and their legislative strategy.
While briefing the press, the leaders were asked by the press some pointed questions. Sen. Bakk continued his dramatic antics, calling the GOP a ‘cast of characters’, but could not answer how his caucus would respond to the Dayton absolute plan to raise taxes. You may remember that Dayton’s last plan to raise taxes received exactly one vote on the floor earlier this session. Here’s the video archive of the press conference.
Bakk: The people that voted for Tom Horner knew they were voting for a tax increase. Just like the people that voted for Mark Dayton knew. When you put their support together, you get a majority. That’s why they’re on the wrong side of public support.
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Press:Will you be engaging or sitting on the sidelines and watch?
Thissen: We’re already engaging in the discussion..
Press: How??
Thissen: By working with Governor Dayton..
Press: You’re working with him? Then what are you doing? You don’t have the votes to pass this, so what else is being done?
Bakk: We, uh, we did meet with Governor Dayton last week several times, Rep. Thissen and I, …we were aware of the proposal he was going to..not all the details..but what he intended to propose this week. Uh. We told him last week that we think our caucuses will support that. Uh, we’re going to be supportive of the Governor as we go forward, but I do think the Republicans need to acknowledge that getting a budget is about compromise and they’re going to have to be willing to get out of the end-zone and move towards the Governor.
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Press: Do you have any alternative revenue sources in mind other than tax increases?
Both:{Blank stares} No.
Here’s the GOP press conference that started out the day:
Tags: 2011 Session, DFL, DFL Legislators, Mark Dayton, Uncategorized
Topics: 2011 Session, DFL, DFL Legislators, Mark Dayton, Uncategorized | 71 Comments »
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May 17th, 2011 at 7:53 AM
Shut all non essential services down. And no provisions for back pay. We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem.
May 17th, 2011 at 8:39 AM
What doesn’t the Governor understand about NO MORE TAXES?
May 17th, 2011 at 8:48 AM
Go back to the essential functions of the government: public safety, highways, and infrastructure. Fund those things and dump everything else.
The state would be swimming in money in no time at all. Then we could all get a tax rebate.
May 17th, 2011 at 8:49 AM
Dayton has yet to come out of his Seroquel-induced stupor. He probably never will.
I thought Jesse was a dysfunctional governor, but this guy makes him look competent. Sheesh.
May 17th, 2011 at 9:42 AM
Another priority for the GOP House in Washington needs to be repealing the ban on regular light bulbs.
Boehner, get on this. Now.
It makes me sick that we will soon be paying $50 each for the GD environmentalist bulbs that don’t light up anything.
May 17th, 2011 at 9:43 AM
If we all go blind trying to read with these new lights, thank al f***ing gore.
Bah!
May 17th, 2011 at 10:49 AM
The reason that DFLers do not think tax increases kill jobs is because their first priority is GOVERNMENT JOBS not private sector jobs.
To them, a tax increase equals increased government revenue which equals more unionized government employees. Of course, that also means guaranteed campaign contributions for their re-election.
It’s a dirty, rotten, stinking scam that perpetuates liberalism and the continued growth of government. The way to end it is to pass legislation to bar government employee unions. Do you hear me, GOP?
Then pass a Right To Work law and the economy of this state would improve dramatically.
May 17th, 2011 at 1:03 PM
Dayton and Franken are #1 and #2 main reason for voter ID requirements.
We are dealing with these issues due outright DFL voter fraud out of Hennipen, Ramsey and Duluth.
You know it, I know it and Dayton/Franken knows it.
May 17th, 2011 at 1:28 PM
#7
BS.
The reason DFLers do not think that the type of proposed tax increases kill jobs is because they don’t. Actually there tends to be a increase in private sector jobs as businesses realize fewer profits and reinvest. At least that is what all the actual studies of the issue have found.
Let’s face it the current tax structures at all levels are such a mess that clear arguments from all sides are nearly impossible. I personally would like to see a much simpler tax code. Preferring a flat income tax approach. One that treats ALL income the same Dividend and Welfare the same. Any use or sin taxes come with a three year sunset so they have to be reviewed to be renewed. Then we could actually have a what should the government do and not do discussions and elections.
May 17th, 2011 at 1:34 PM
4) People, there are reasons why Time Mag honored Gov Dayton as worst US Senator to serve… ever.
And yet the usefull idoits at Tribune including Hector act surprised over his olfish behavior. LOL
May 17th, 2011 at 1:36 PM
9) Jude: Actually there tends to be a increase in private sector jobs as businesses realize fewer profits and reinvest. At least that is what all the actual studies of the issue have found.
… and can you back any of this fantasy up with facts?
May 17th, 2011 at 3:50 PM
“Actually there tends to be a increase in private sector jobs as businesses realize fewer profits and reinvest. At least that is what all the actual studies of the issue have found. ”
Cite one, shit for brains.
Jesus H. Christ, you’re the first person I’ve heard of in a long time state such a stupid fucking proposition.
May 17th, 2011 at 3:51 PM
“Actually there tends to be a increase in private sector jobs as businesses realize fewer profits and reinvest.”
O.k., tax profits 100 percent and see what happens. As your theory goes, it will trigger massive investment and hiring.
You have your head so far up your ass it’s making you choke.
May 17th, 2011 at 3:53 PM
On the subject of “shared saccrifice”… the trouble is, the minority of us who pay taxes have saccrificed enough.
There is no moral justification to ask me to saccrifice more.
Cut spending. Period.
May 17th, 2011 at 3:54 PM
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, by the way, has been demonstrated to have destroyed more than 1 million private sector jobs.
May 17th, 2011 at 4:12 PM
12)… LOL
May 17th, 2011 at 9:34 PM
*9
Hector is a moron.
Lady Kos is an effing moron.
Jude is a monumental moron.
May 17th, 2011 at 9:36 PM
#15
Not to mention all the travel plans that have been ruined.
Chr*st, I’ve never seen so many orange cones, idle equipment, and lazy bums leaning on shovels or sitting in trucks eating stale donuts.
May 17th, 2011 at 9:38 PM
#9
Liberals do not understand the free enterprise system because a) they are just plain ignorant and b) they think it is fundamentally offensive and they refuse to expend any effort to understand it.
Jude and Comrade Obama are in the same boat.
May 17th, 2011 at 9:40 PM
Well, the deadline for the debt ceiling increase has passed and the world did not come crashing down.
Stand firm, Boehner.
May 18th, 2011 at 12:28 AM
scott can i back up my fantasy with facts? on a republican board? isn”t that prohibited? come over to an economics board and we can talk>
note the broken caps lock>
May 18th, 2011 at 6:05 AM
Republicans have been telling me there was no legislative support among DFLer’s for Dayton’s proposals. Was I being misled?
May 18th, 2011 at 6:25 AM
So you can’t back it up eh Jude?
next time just say so.
May 18th, 2011 at 6:33 AM
This website and Republicans elsewhere made a big deal of it when the DFL shut down debate as the 2009 session wound down. Just between you and me, I always thought they were a bit disingenuous in their complaints. I am pretty much convinced that Republicans share my views on this subject, that legislators talk way too much and act way too little. In any event, could I respectfully request my Republican friends to please, please return the favor, that is, shut down debate, pass the bills the voters elected you to pass, and let’s all move the heck on. I promise you, I will post no videos of DFL legislators sputtering at the outrage of it all.
May 18th, 2011 at 7:24 AM
21) Jude: yeah,no facts… I figured you were full of crap.
May 18th, 2011 at 7:28 AM
18) I see orange cones and idle equipement and no workers. BTW with all that captial and short building season in MN, time is also factor.
Why are they not running three shifts? With unemployment over 15% in the trades we could negotiate the road contracts without paying a dime overtime. Just run three shifts 24/7. We could get all projects completed prior to State Fair.
May 18th, 2011 at 7:45 AM
24) Paint Chip Hector, are you getting all your news from the Trib? The budget was completed and voted on months ago. Dayton is the one without a plan, other than raising taxes. He was MIA through out he entire session.
May 18th, 2011 at 8:08 AM
I just saw Harry Reid on TV and he has a big bruise under his left eye.
I wonder who slugged him. Or did he fall on his face? He is pretty frail.
May 18th, 2011 at 8:11 AM
#25
Just like Hector, he is a non-factor here.
May 18th, 2011 at 8:13 AM
#26
Don’t forget the actual remarks of DOT officials themselves. They do not want to make your commute easier and they don’t want to make traffic flow better. They want to force you out of your private car and into a bus or a train.
That is what they said and they mean it.
May 18th, 2011 at 8:21 AM
“The budget was completed and voted on months ago.”
If you are correct, that the legislature has completed it’s business, why in the name of Harold Stassen, are they still in town?
“Dayton is the one without a plan, other than raising taxes. He was MIA through out he entire session.”
A very odd comment. Dayton is without a plan except for the plan he has? And one thing I have noticed about Republicans is their rejection of reality. Say what you will about Mark Dayton, he has been around. Unlike his predecessor, he meets with legislators of both parties frequently. While he hasn’t yet revealed his negotiating bottom line, the outlines of his position haven’t changed since the campaign. There have been no surprises. He has resisted the Republican invitation to fill the leadership gap they have created for themselves in the legislature, but the reasons for that are sound. Mark Dayton is neither a Republican nor a legislator. He can’t and shouldn’t do someone else’s job.
May 18th, 2011 at 8:42 AM
28) Reid just fell off a bar stool, no big deal.
May 18th, 2011 at 8:43 AM
Dayton has been MIA for months. Even the Democrat Minority Leadership is complaining about the MIA Gov.
May 18th, 2011 at 8:52 AM
“Dayton has been MIA for months.”
This is objectively not true. Dayton has been around a lot, especially in comparison with his predecessor. He has met regularly with legislators from both sides throughout the legislative session. He has avoided intervening in the legislative process, but I think that’s a sound constitutional and strategic decision. He wasn’t elected to the legislature, and the legislature should be capable of doing it’s work without intervention from the governor.
“Even the Democrat Minority Leadership is complaining about the MIA Gov.”
What DFL leaders tell me is that they have met with Dayton a lot.
May 18th, 2011 at 4:36 PM
It’s so reassuring to know that both Governor Mark Dayton and Senator Al Franken will be working for middle class voters for many years to come.
This while Republicans can’t drop out of the electoral process fast enough.
Hey, has anybody here heard from Integrity lately? Maybe he is waiting until the GOP implosion next year….
May 18th, 2011 at 6:52 PM
#35
WTF does any of that even mean?
May 18th, 2011 at 6:56 PM
Hector, your tendency to claim some sort of “inside” perspective on matters in St. Paul is getting rather tiresome. Anyone can say anything on the internet. I always assume that liberals are lying because it is what you people do best. Since you’re a lib, you’re probably making it all up.
Either way, it contributes nothing to the blog and I am not responding to it any longer.
May 18th, 2011 at 6:59 PM
It’s about damn time everybody just moved on and let Arnold Terminator alone. Why are they so interested in his private sex life? It has nothing to do with doing his job as governor. They all do it. So just drop it. Move on.
Even if he lied, so what? Everybody lies about sex.
May 18th, 2011 at 7:01 PM
And why won’t they leave the IMF frog dude alone? Isn’t he supposed to be innocent until proven guilty? Oh, I forgot. The man is always lying and woman is always telling the truth, except if the man is Slick Willie.
Never trust a Frog. They are all scumbags.
May 18th, 2011 at 7:02 PM
Charlie Scheen was found dead of an overdose.
Well, maybe not yet. I’m just practicing for the inevitable end that loser is going to meet.
May 18th, 2011 at 7:27 PM
Danbrome- “Reassuring to know Dayton and Franken are looking out for the middle-class voters…” Really? Then why are so many of them out of a job?
May 18th, 2011 at 7:56 PM
#41
Because they have self-absorbed, psychotic incompetents “looking out for them.” LOL
May 18th, 2011 at 8:28 PM
Who knew? that dodging taxes was a job? thanks dan for pointing that out.
“It’s so reassuring to know that both Governor Mark Dayton and Senator Al Franken will be working for middle class voters for many years to come.”
May 18th, 2011 at 11:06 PM
People, I really must insist. He is to be addressed and referred to at all times as That Horse’s Ass, Al Franken. I’m looking for some improvement here.
May 18th, 2011 at 11:21 PM
j.l….
Get your facts straight. The records are clear.
If you are suggesting that the employment situation in the U.S. is due to President Obama’s policies, you are either ignorant or confused, or both.
Take a peek….
http://cleantechnica.com/2011/01/12/obama-teaches-bush-how-to-create-jobs-creates-more-in-2010-than-bush-did-in-8-years/
May 18th, 2011 at 11:33 PM
http://www.oliverwillis.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/obama-private-sector.jpg
May 19th, 2011 at 5:56 AM
“your tendency to claim some sort of “inside” perspective on matters in St. Paul is getting rather tiresome.”
I am hardly an insider but I do spend a lot of time at the state capitol and I talk to a lot of legislators. Anyone can, they are very accessible and they do get lonesome. It’s a simple fact that Gov. Dayton has been far more available and far more engaged in the process than his predecessor. He’s just around a lot more. He talks to people directly, not just through staff. He is a modest, likable guy, at least in his casual dealings. I see the Brodkorb is trotting out one of his favorite talking points, one that failed him in the campaign, claiming the governor is erratic. Time will tell, of course, but so far this governor has been the very opposite of erratic.
May 19th, 2011 at 6:51 AM
38) Why are the liberals that gave a pass to Bill Clinton’s rape record so concerned about Arnold?
May 19th, 2011 at 6:52 AM
36) two words… Paint Chips.
Explains it all.
May 19th, 2011 at 6:55 AM
40) …got him on my celeb death pool this year, how old is he, 50? Just waiting for the train to derail.
May 19th, 2011 at 6:57 AM
37) he works in the kitchen.
May 19th, 2011 at 7:01 AM
“After all the waivers the Obama administration has been dishing out like candy, are there any liberals left to whom Obamacare will apply?”
-Coulter
Isn’t that the truth.
May 19th, 2011 at 7:02 AM
Maybe Dayton can secure Minnesota a waiver?
May 19th, 2011 at 7:05 AM
Like a majority of Minnesotains, I am fine with shutting the non essential state services down as long as the taxpayers are not put on the hook for back pay.
May 19th, 2011 at 7:51 AM
“Why are the liberals that gave a pass to Bill Clinton’s rape record so concerned about Arnold?”
I am not concerned about Arnold. I always liked the guy and am a big fan of his movies. And I didn’t think he was a bad governor of California. He does fool around a bit, but we weren’t the ones determined to ignore that.
May 19th, 2011 at 11:04 AM
#49, 51
Classic lines. Well done.
May 19th, 2011 at 11:12 AM
#46
Ship it !!
May 19th, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Why can”t Jude and Hector understand that if you don’t have money you can’t spend it. The State isn’t like the Feds, they can’t just print more.
May 19th, 2011 at 1:06 PM
“Why can”t Jude and Hector understand that if you don’t have money you can’t spend it.”
We don’t have money? When did that happen?
May 19th, 2011 at 1:57 PM
Looks like danbrome was released again. If you stay on your meds maybe you can stay out this time.
May 19th, 2011 at 2:33 PM
Danny Boy and Gov. Dayton wear the same size straight jacket.
May 19th, 2011 at 7:11 PM
I just did something I have never done before, I sent an e-mail to the White House expressing my view of the Presidents selling one of our few remaining allies done the river.
May 20th, 2011 at 7:42 AM
61) They shared a room at the detox center in Hazelton.
May 20th, 2011 at 7:44 AM
Jorgie: Ummm, bad idea, ewxpect to be visited by the Sercret Service everytime Obummer visits U of M fishing for extra fraud votes.
May 20th, 2011 at 8:40 AM
#46
I encourage all of you to visit the link in post #46. Then write me back to confirm you understand that President Obama’s policies have been successful in the creation of private sector jobs.
I always know when I make a solid point here, because I soon have Republicans telling me I’m crazy and that I need to get back on my meds.
If that helps you sleep at night, or if it gives you a few laughs, that’s fine. However, you have to admit I’m right on this one.
Cheers.
May 20th, 2011 at 10:32 AM
Still delusional I see… Explain why the unemployment rate went up to 9%. The CBO has stated the unemployment rate will remain above 9% through 2011.
The only good new is that the heaviest job losses have been in government. Not federal of course, just state and local. Unlike the Obama administration state and local government can’t just print more money to pay the bills so that leaves them with cutting back.
May 20th, 2011 at 11:01 AM
President Obama’s policies have been successful in the creation of private sector jobs.
Can you refute this?
I didn’t think so.
May 20th, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Private sector jobs have been created by business. This happened in spite of Obama’s anti-business pro union polices.
May 20th, 2011 at 12:20 PM
But hey, if you want to claim that Obama is responsible for creating jobs that cost around 10 million dollars per job I will let you.
Feel better now?
May 20th, 2011 at 12:23 PM
Obama could have given $25,000 of tax payer dollars to over 60 million people. Paying down debt and/or spending the money would have stimulated at least those 60 million democrats.
May 20th, 2011 at 9:10 PM
#62
8.8% unemployment.