Markets? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Markets
The Senate DFL is really going to push to get Minnesota as close to the perfect socialist nanny state that they can.
SENATE: AMBITIOUS AND LONG-RANGE
With a crew of veteran legislators at the helm, the DFL-led Senate has targeted major changes that may only get groundwork laid in this session, and others that run headlong into Pawlenty’s resistance to tax increases.
Like the House, the Senate wants health coverage for the state’s uninsured children and small-business access to MinnesotaCare. The latter goal may be a point of tension with the governor, since Pawlenty has expressed a preference for “market-based” solutions.
Senate DFLers also want a discount prescription drug program, higher income limits for families on MinnesotaCare and a charted path to universal health care by 2010.
On transportation, Senate DFLers would raise the gasoline tax, license tab fees and allow counties to raise taxes and fees, all to produce $1 billion of new spending on roads and transit. Pawlenty spokesman Brian McClung has dubbed the Senate bill “veto bait.” PAWLENTY: “FISCAL DISCIPLINE” BACK ON TOP
Minnesotans already ARE paying for a better Minnesota. It is time to prioritize the billions and billions they already have before them. Um, raising billions in new and increased taxes is not fiscal conservativism. Its called being a tax and spend liberal.
Pay attention everyone, the DFL only wants to fix congesstion if they can tax you more.
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We understand that health insurance can be very confusing; the terms can be difficult to understand and the forms intimidating. WBR LeoP