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Taxing Minnesota
The DFL controlled Legislature here in Minnesota voted to increase the gas and other taxes, costing Minnesotans upwards of $500 per year (guesstimated, which means it will be more). Pawlenty has promised a veto, so it looks like it is time to contact your representatives and let them know they need to sustain it.
Although some of the taxes would be leveraged for roads and bridges solely, there is also a lot of the hoped for revenue would be used to support transit, a.k.a. the light rail boondoggle.
The estimates for revenue raised would be over $6 BILLION, which means the people of Minnesota will have that much less money to spend (or invest) as they choose, stifling economic growth in the state.
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