It took this group to come up with this. Tax everybody. What a bunch of BS. Why didn’t they look at cutting? Its hard, it takes time, they just spend spend spend. When Reagon faced this in California as governor he appointed business people to help him cut the budget with no new taxes, they did and flurished. This state brings in a bunch of has-beens and guess what, they come up with raise taxes.

How about that? This ad hoc commission (a “blue-ribbon panel” no less!) looked at it for a few hours and got everything decided. They did the impossible, figuring where the billions would be raised from and where they would be cut out of the budget. Next, perhaps they can tackle the issue of where the mates to socks go when they are put in the dryer. That should take a little longer.

Why don’t the house from both parties pay for this mess, they’re the one’s who couldn’t come to an agreement. Why should we have to pay.

Typical liberals with their typical solution, just tax everything and all will be well

Didn’t see this solution coming out of these washed up losers, nope not at all

Who are these two gas bags to form a “commission” to make a recommendation? Me and some of my friends have studied it too and recommend they cut 6 Billion in spending. That would erase the deficite and that would even leave money left over to lower the tax on beer.

You need to read the entire proposal including teh $3.6 spending cut.

No don’t raise taxes that are already too high on alcohol and tobacco. They should legalize cannabis and tax it. We would make that 5 billion in six months.

Sounds like a good compromise; something we have forgotten how to do in this country. All economists have said a balanced approach is what is needed. Unfortunately, everyone operates by the “My way or the highway’ approach.

I think there has to be a combination of raising taxes and cuting on spending. There is no way I can be convinced that there aren’t areas that can cut spending that doesn’t inclued our education system or the services to our mentall/physically challenged folks in this state. Maybe a cost reduction reward system could be put in place for folks with ideas (valid ones, that is) of how to cut spending.

The caped cadavers to the rescue!! Tax, spend, and away!! Couple of real problem solvers, these two. Mondull is about as exciting as a bowl of creamed wheat, and Carlson is just a washed up old liberal. I thought Mondale was dead. Not just politically but in fact. When did they exhume him?

The Republicans don’t want to do there job so/,
someone has to do it for them. Dayton is at least
trying to do what is right.

Really? After Mondull’s shared economic record with the peanut farmer, I can’t believe anyone would ask him his opinion about anything regarding budgets or the economy……. In other news President Obama has asked Joe Hazelwood, former captain of the Exxon Valdeez to be the new hazardous waste shipping safety czar.

You can’t make this stuff up. It writes itself.

This is funny, the same story is print almost every day and then the same people with the same posts argue and call each other stupid and other names. Do you all ever get tired of having the same fight over and over and yelling at each other that you are wrong I am right every single day? I guess not because you can copy paste these posts from any of the stories from the last 3 weeks. Please keep it up though as you are all just showing how foolish you are by resorting to name calling and pulling hair like you are a 3rd grader at recess. MN nice…LOL that should be revised when talking to people that are not all there and want to talk about politics. I hope they keep the Gov shut down as this is 1 of the best forms of comedy I have found in a long time. It is like an Abbot and Costello skit, you’re stupid, you’re an idiot, you know nothing, you should not be able to vote. I think you should all be taking your own advice, if you cannot have a civilized conversation you should not be able to comment on anything that someone else has an opinion on. Looking forward to the next barn burner of intelligence and knuckle busting, keep up the good work all.

Not at all, as stated it is entertaining to read all the people that claim that they know exactly what is going to happen, as well as all of you that know exactly how to fix the problem but never have had the guts to try to actually do so. Since you lack this you take it out on the fellow bloggers. Takes a big person to yell and fight on a blog where they will never be face to face with the person they are yelling at. Go ahead and think what you will though, you calling me names and judging my post is the same form of entertainment I was asking for. Just like the mom comment, hard to be that being a man but you jumped to that right away and the assumptions are the best part about bloggers. You know nothing but assume everything.

Taste Great! Less Filling! Taste…

I love the Miller Lite commercial at the end!!!! That’s wonderfull! By the way, it’s less filling! LOL!!

Unfortunately I don’t see a resolution from the children at the Capitol any time soon because NONE of them are willing to compromise. Each side wants everything their way and don’t really care how many of us are going to get hurt in the process. I was saddened to hear how many of the children are still taking their paychecks while many of our state workers will go without theirs. Sad so very sad and selfish of them. None of them should keep their jobs in the coming elections.

I think they should shut their pie holes. If the state raises their income tax four percent as these have-beens suggest, I am moving out.

Public employees are not the enemy. They do not deserve you wrath. The real enemy are the legislators who had 5 months to get a budget approved, but they sat on their duffs playing games with the public while the public listen to white trash talk radio which put illogical arguments in their heads. Everyone who writes anti gov. slander on this site are idiots.

Real Problems and no solution is what the has been panel came up with. Stay in retirement along with liar double talking fee raising Pawlenty. Even Jesse sometimes keeps his mouth shut.

ganja can save us.. I said it once.. i will say it again and again… let us grow and sell ganja in peace even if that means taxing it

I’m getting tired of all the rediculous name calling and petty bickering over things like spell check and grammar. As far as the shutdown goes…since I know very little about what cuts they want to make or spending to be approved, I just want the gov’t to do it’s job, pull their heads out, and get it together. I work for the state and although I’m still working and being paid in full, until the gov’t is up and running again, I can’t close the deal on purchasing my family’s first home since I’m flagged for a loan for working for the state. Jerks.

This morning the news announced that Minnesota’s bond rating was downgraded from triple A to AA+, and the reason stated that it was not just the shutdown, it was because of the LAST SEVERAL YEARS of Minnesota not balancing the budget–in other words, the revenue shifts and smoke and mirrors approach under T-Paw. Who is to blame? I don’t really care. Here is my solution that I think might work. Tax pop, chips, candy, junk foods. This stuff really isn’t food and anyone who wants to pay less tax can easily cut down on purchasing these “foods.” Second, since it has recently been pointed out that the biggest culprits in the obesity problem are #1 chips, and #2 pop, that should help with health care costs. Third, this tax will provide a much broader base than taxing cigarettes. Now I’m waiting for the pop companies and chip and candy companies to have a snit fit about how people will buy less of their product. No, I sincerely doubt they will, but go ahead. It is a solution that is the most painless I can think of, and I would sure appreciate it if some of you econ 101 wizards would do some number crunching to see the revenue stream.

Citizen has a great idea above. Honestly, after Ventura’s tax overhauls and Pawlenty’s revenue shifts it’s no surprise that the state is in trouble. It’s too damaging to only cut our way out of this. have some compassion and realism about this. And stop the name calling. It doesn’t help anything.

Can’t put all the blame on Pawlenty..remember he had a Democrat spending congress to deal with. Glad he had that veto pen…or we would be in bigger trouble