Emmer releases second part of budget plan, focuses on K-12 education

Tom Emmer is the answer for MN. His unique ideas to solve the budget problems are clearly far ahead of this opponents.

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The ideas behind cutting 14.9% from K-12 education funding for the next biennium is as “unique” as a mosquito in my backyard, and doesn’t benefit but hurts the state of Minnesota in the long run. No “answer,” Mr. Emmmr is just another right-wing pinhead like Po-lenty that values money over the people of this state.

Cutting budgets without identifying and getting public support for expenditures that deserve to be cut is a cowardly exercise spineless conservatives love to do, year after year.

Tim,

Are you nuts? Seriously? If I unilaterally said, “I’m just not going to pay a major debt of mine for 4 years,” I’d be taken to court. Emmer’s plan is, like all Republicans’, simply to push off payment of important social costs onto the next, presumably Democratic, administration.

Republicans will do this until they are repudiated at the polls, because it makes political hay for them – in order to fix the damage they’ve done, it forces Democrats to raise taxes, which allows the GOP a narrative where they love to cut taxes, and the evil nanny-stater Democrats want to raise them. In fact it has nothing to do with taxes and everything to do with establishing, in the words of Karl Rove, a “permanent Republican majority” that is effectively a tyranny where 50% of the population is permanently disenfranchised.

Good call Katie Tim is nuts Minnesota is not in debt because of Jesse Ventura Minnesota is in debt because of Tim Pawlenty and Tom Emmer is another jackass republican like Tim and Michelle.

The right to a free and appropriate education is a constitutional right in Minnesota.

Yet governors feel free to play partisan political games with their constitutional responsibility to fund the schools.

Delaying payments only raises costs to the schools, but on a more micro, more expensive level as each district has to get it’s own financing to cover the hole left because the State won’t raise the revenue required to pay for it’s obligations.

To pretend that such budget shifts by governors are conservative measures to hold the line on taxes is a lie, and a darn hypocritical one at that.

[...] the Minnesota Department of Management and Budget’s General Fund Balance Analysis, End of 2010 Legislative Sessions on June 11 stipulates that current law requires the state general [...]

Another borrow-and-spend republican unwilling to be honest about taxes. He would drive up fees and regressive local taxes just to claim that he did not (personally and directly) raise taxes.

We’ve had enough of economic dishonesty and slumlord politics.

Again, I apologize as it was NOT me making the stupid comments. I am truly sorry for the actions of a so-called “friend.”

Again I’m sorry for a comment another person made using my computer. I truly am.

“To limit K-12 education funding to $13,300,000,000 as Rep. Emmer is proposing, instead of $15,621,575,000 as required by law, he would have to cut funding by $2,321,575,000. That is a 14.9% cut to K-12 education funding for the next biennium.”

Not spending a DFL union cram down is not a cut. It is a rational response to lack of funds. Can anyone justify a 15% increase over the next two years?

And can anyone tell me why a child in Minneapolis is worth more than a child in Plymouth or Eden Prarie, according to the State of MN per child local school support?

Emmer is the least damaging of the three candidates, the other two just want to continue spending like there is no limit. We need private sector growth not government growth.

We need a governor that won’t put off his work. Ideas and solutions, not procrastination.