Well, if we are not able to generate more state growth revenue to outpace previous legislative shuffling of the books by both parties, why don't we implement a tried and tested approach and cut more of the expenses?
After all we have spent ourselves into this problem in the first place.
Liberals solution is always raise income taxes first, (on the ones who actualy pay the taxes mainly for the benefit of those who don't pay much taxes at all). User fees and yes if you want to call it a user tax ok, more fairly passes on program costs to those who directly benefit.
But a liberal will always look to someone else to pay the bills for them first.
I work at the post office, the long tradition of user fees sure hasn't done a thing to tackle the pathetic amount of wasteful spending. Ever get a 15 minute break minutes of the work day? Ever get that 15 minute break to end the work day while working overtime? And to clarrify 15 minutes really means something closer to 25 minutes.
User fee's are like all other taxes it's just one answer to the question of what is a fair way to collect taxes. Different political philosophies will lead you to differnt answers, but what can not be argued is that they help eliminate wasteful spending.
"You can't keep shifting line items around without paying the piper."
You're right Flash. I'm not happy with the Governor's insistance on retaining the funding for programs that we don't need and can't pay for.
It's time to pay the piper; cut programs, cut state departments.
How about taking another look at some of the penny wise - pound foolish cuts that Pawlenty made last year that ended up costing the state even more money????? Cutting aid to families with disabled children so they could no longer care for their child at home, requiring them to send the child to a State Institution. This costs the State WAY more money than if the child's family could have continued receiving aid for in home care. Or how about taking away MN Care health insurance from the poor, requiring them to use emergency rooms for health care, again at a much higher tax payer expense. These are only two examples I can think of, off the top of my head, but I'm willing to bet there are a lot more.
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