Where are the
DFL's priorities?
That is the question you should be asking your state representative.
I would encourage you to ask where your state representative stood on the pro-life amendments to the Health and Human Service Omnibus Bill. Does your state representative really represent your views in St. Paul?
Ask how they voted on the tax bill that increases taxes not only on the wealthy as they claim, but small business owners and to average middle-income tax earners. A $2.2 billion surplus ought to be enough. A 9.8 percent increase in spending ought to be enough. The average person, family, business lives within its means. Why not government?
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How did they vote on the gas tax? You were sold the constitutional amendment that would go along way toward transportation but that wasn't enough. The governor proposed a very good bonding proposal for roads and bridges that was rejected. The transportation lobby is no different than education - how much is enough is the question - there is never enough is the answer.
I know that he who promises to rob Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul. But you are robbing people from throughout the state to make government bigger. You are robbing St. Peter, Park Rapids, Osage and other communities to pay St. Paul.
It is your job to know the answers and prove them wrong.
David Anderson
Lonsdale
