Yesterday, the Star Tribune reported that Minnesota faces a $1.2 billion budget deficit that could exceed $5.4 billion over the next three years. This is according to a state budget forecast released Wednesday. Before overreacting, it’s important to note that these forecasts are often very wrong. But personally, I don’t think this is one of those times. There are many issues that people scream about in regards to fixing the budget. Raise taxes, borrow money, cut school funding; I would take another approach.
On April 27, 2008 the Democratic majority in the Minnesota Legislator passed the HHS Spending Bill-HF 1362. Rather than working on balancing our budget, the Majority party increased the budget for welfare by 2.2 billion dollars. An increase of 20.47! Shortly after that, an audit was performed on these programs revealing that millions of dollars from minnesota taxpayers were somehow being spent all over the country (including Hawaii--by people on wellfare!)
Guess what I would do…..
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