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State Representative Mary Franson
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
651-296-3201
For more information contact: House GOP Communications 651-296-5520
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News From Representative Franson
This week Republican Leadership continues to meet with Governor Dayton to work out a budget deal. Last biennium state government spent just over $31 billion. This biennium we are proposing to spend $34 billion. A 6% increase from last biennium, although we are increasing funding to important areas like Health Care and K-12 Education I would like to highlight a few areas of reform that our budget does all without increasing taxes.
Environment Bill:
- Addresses critical issues including aquatic invasive species.
Health and Human Services:
- Funds priorities and promotes sustainability by spending $570 million more than last biennium while reducing projected spending increases by 15%
- Increases funding for 69 nursing homes
Higher Education:
- Promotes efficiency and effectiveness with performance benchmarks for the U of M and MnSCU
K-12 Education:
- Increases K-12 education funding statewide by 3.2%
Public Safety:
- Prioritizes spending to protect delivery of public safety services while limiting use of state taxpayer dollars on state agency educational outreach programs and grants.
State Government:
- Reduces projected state government spending 33% while implementing innovations to drive efficiency and make existing state dollars go further
- Protects veterans and military affairs, does not reduce state employee salary, does not increase employee contribution to their pensions
Taxes:
- Provides tax relief to families and property tax relief to property owners
- Improves business climate by phasing out the statewide business property tax and targeting tax relief to help job creators, grow and expand business in Minnesota
Transportation:
- Increases local road funding by over $120 million dollars
As you can see, many good reforms to government have been made in the budget proposed by Republicans – all without raising taxes. Reforming government, and making sure that priorities like education and health care are being funded properly can be done without raising taxes. A $3 billion increase in government spending should be enough.
This budget simply comes down to one question. Do you want government to grow bigger and tell you to fork over more of your hard-earned dollars, or do you want government to allow you to keep more of your money and allow you to be the decision-maker of your wallet?
It’s up to you to decide.
Have a great weekend!
Mary
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