Go figure, we don’t get an increase in state income tax, but the local cities are still going to get their money from its citizens. How about a 6.5 % decrease in your pay.

That’s the price we gotta pay to get the other monkeys off our backs. At least we know these monkeys.

How about negotiating lower benefits for all the public union employees? The private sector has been hit.

Typical, disfunctional beurocrat, don’ t try to make any meaningful cuts, just raise taxes.

I hope the people say no…

I agree cuts need to be made, but lets make them in the right places. Welfare-axe it. Public schools-anyone out there been in an elementary school classroom lately? Smart boards, flat-screen TV’s, DVD players. I learned just fine with filmstrips and an overhead projector, why can’t today’s kids? I don’t think cutting the public workforce or pensions is the answer either.

No it means cutting services. Not raising taxes on those who have less to pay taxes with. This clown must be a demosnat! Cut pensions for under-deserving workers, before raising taxes!!!

Dave, it’s a whole new world out there and schools must adjust. From the comments of the commentaters, they did not learn very well. Private schools have the toys and public school students cant compete unless they get a good education. Why are teachers buying supplies out of their own pockets?
The Republicans have a very sucessfuil campaign of sterotyping that depends on people’s prejudices and stereotypes. Unfortunately, too many people believe them. Note: These are the same people who claim we are a Christian nation and they are good Christians. Their actions belie their words.

Next time there is a crime why don’t you call your Republican rep. to come help you. If there is a fire at your house, get your garden house out and put it out.

Spoken like a true democrat. I just can’t come up with a BETTER example…

This is absolutely the nightmare of nightmares.
It is not enough that our property taxes are rising as home values and wages decrease or remain stagnant, to add insult to injury, if we think for a moment where these tax dollars are going it would cause the strongest of us to get stomach aches.
Just who are productive taxpayers supporting here in the twin cities?
I can accept supporting the police and fire departments and those that make a good effort to maintain our infrastructure.
But if I stop for a moment and look beyond that i begin to see a huge population that gives little if anything in support of the above.
Where are the Church and charitable organizations the brought numerous refuges to the Twin Cities then merely dropped the ball with the idea that a prosperous economy (on the backs of those who work for a living) would pick up their tab from then on?
How many tax dollars to there?
And those who chose to have child after child on the backs or those who work and are now expected to pay even more of their efforts and labor.
This is not to say that subsidizing any corporation is any fairer (Bachmann included in this rant).
Those working on the dole (in government policy positioins) should be obligated to take a cut the same proportion as wages and home values have cascaded ever downward.
And workers should be paid what they are truly worth based on their skills and ability not on some arbitrary wage based on expected or hoped for tax revenue.
What does a floor cleaner make in a small private company compared to a government position?
The working middle class, and by that I mean those who work for a living in the private sector, government workers do not make real money with the value of skill and labor behind it, the working middle class should be as upset about the Mayor Coleman’s suggest property tax increase as any of those who cry out in pain when they fear their entitlements will be decreased.
Before you give in to Coleman’s increase please check the value of your home based on last years assessment.
And please, please, please get a copy of last year’s city budget and get a better idea of where your dollars are going.
Find out who has made an honest effort to earn your sweat and labor and those who feel entitled to it based on emotional blackmail and the threat of “mob justice”.
You do that.. and I’ll make the same effort in my city.

Get rid of him at the next election.

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Never said I was a good Christian.
Never was a teacher as I do not have the patience to be a good one. Worked 50 to 60 hours a week, no overtime prior to retirement.
Teachers do not work 8-330 because they still have to grade papers, plan next days work, deal with parents with your stereotypes, and politicians who use them as whipping boys.
Schools need more money because costs keep going up. You can’t run a 2011/2012 school on a 1950s budget.
Why didn’t you go into teaching or public service if it is such a well paying easy life? Maybe law enforcement, deal with drunks, domestics disturbances, gun wielding nut cases, etc. How about fire fighting and deal with accident victims, deliver babies, go into smoke filled houses and hope to get out alive. Work odd shifts, mids, swings, whatever and again be whipping boys by politicians who use them to feather their own nests by appealing to your prejudices.

Incidentally I love your personal attack on me when you have no idea who I am or what I did prior to retirement. Just use a stereotype, it is easier than checking and learning something new

Ramble on Angus. We get it. You are perfect, all Republicans are evil.