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How do you feel about the shutdown?
by Matt McMillan
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The Leader is interested to hear how readers feel about the July 1 shutdown of Minnesota's state government due to the budget impasse between the Legislature and Gov. Mark Dayton.

Post a comment here, or e-mail [email protected] with a letter to the editor.

Does it make you happy, sad, mad or indifferent?

Are you hurt or helped by it? Give us your two cents.
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comments (12)
« tom.55350 wrote on Monday, Jul 04 at 03:11 PM »
Dayton and the Democrats need to understand that that the problem is SPENDING!! And how they like spending!
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« trebuchet wrote on Monday, Jul 04 at 03:09 PM »
The MN income tax is NOT regressive. It is very progressive. The numbers that have been quoted are a combination of income, sales, property, gas, liqueur, cigarette taxes and other fees. Most of these are based on choices. We don't need to punish anyone for not buying a bigger house, not smoking, driving more, or spending more. Trying to make our income tax structure so steep that it compensates for other frugal choices will result in another frugal choice: leaving MN. This has happened in other states for doing the same. The results are devastating when a large portion of the population paying the majority of the taxes leaves!
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« centralmnusa wrote on Monday, Jul 04 at 01:42 PM »
Dayton is correct to ask that the richest pay more. The tax system is unfair and the whole thing is regressive. We need reform to a progressive income tax based upon the ability to pay.
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« tom.55350 wrote on Monday, Jul 04 at 12:45 PM »
Our government needs to take drastic measures and get spending under control. For a good example just look to our local government and school board. Years of crazy, frivolous spending by our city council and school board. For example our fancy designer water system and expensive over sized waste treatment system causing taxpayers and users huge increases or the dam that needed to be built during road construction but then wasn't started until 2 years after or the multi-million dollar highway 7 tunnel that no one uses or ignoring laws and land owner rights in building the gas pipeline costing residents millions extra plus other spending to numerous for me to put here. Then there's the school board, there are so many examples of their crazy megalomaniacal ambitions. One that ticked me off was after threatening us that they needed a bond increase to teach the kids pulled almost $100,000 out of their hat to rearrange the sports fields. No wonder the only jobs to be found in Hutchinson are a few that barely pay more than minimum wage. You have to go to Willmar or Litchfield or the cities to find a job that pays enough to live on. So lets start with the State budget and next chance we get lets vote the rich megalomaniacs out of the city council and school boards and get some responcible local government too.
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« tom.55350 wrote on Monday, Jul 04 at 11:33 AM »
Corrections: "Year olds" and "judged by voters in 2012"
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« tom.55350 wrote on Monday, Jul 04 at 11:30 AM »
When the old congress to put off doing a budget to avoid being judged harshly by voters and keep their jobs to me that means that they left it up to this congress to deiced. The 11 and 15 ear olds I know understand the meaning of the saying "if you snooze you loose". If they would have passed a budget and Governor Pawlenty vetoed it then I would agree with you. What the Republicans want seems reasonable to me and unlike the Democrats in 2010, they seem willing to be judged by the voters in 2011.
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« BobTr wrote on Sunday, Jul 03 at 03:47 PM »
Dayton is doing what he said he would do. Newman and Gruenhagen are doing what they said they would do. Good for them! It's nice to see people do what they said they were going to do. Now, all of them are going to have to do something different. All of them! Right? Even my 11 and 15 year olds know that's how you settle a fight, 'cause if you don't meet in the middle there's just going to be another fight.
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« itsstilljustme wrote on Saturday, Jul 02 at 10:59 AM »
Its sad that so many state workers are laid off right before a holiday weekend. The governor is so bent on his "tax the rich" agenda he's willing to trash the livelihoods of these people. The governor and the legislature should forfeit their pay and per diem for this session because they have all FAILED miserably.
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« trebuchet wrote on Saturday, Jul 02 at 09:32 AM »
If only a bill could be passed to let the state run while negotiations continue! I put the blame of the shutdown on the one man that vetoed that bill.
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« arcy wrote on Saturday, Jul 02 at 04:59 AM »
From the list I found here it seems the State shut down many of its money MAKING enterprises, Lottery, campsites. How does that make any sense?
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« tom.55350 wrote on Friday, Jul 01 at 09:34 PM »
what ticks me off is Dayton keeps blaming the Republicans for the shut down. The truth is that the Democrats were suppose to do this budget in 2010 when they controlled both houses but the bums were more concerned about getting reelected so put it off. So the new bums in town isn't the issue, the issue is that the democrats were more interested in protecting their jobs in the election than doing the job we pay them to do. So Dayton, your bums had there chance. Quit blaming the wrong Bums and quit holding out for what you and your party want and give in to the Republicans.
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« Matt_McMillan wrote on Friday, Jul 01 at 02:53 PM »
Someone called me today from northern Minnesota today. He said the state has 3,000 campsites, and those who reserved camping sites or camping cabins might not find alternatives since many of the resorts are booked for the holiday weekend.
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« tom.55350 wrote on Monday, Jul 04 at 03:11 PM »
Dayton and the Democrats need to understand tha...
« trebuchet wrote on Monday, Jul 04 at 03:09 PM »
The MN income tax is NOT regressive. It is very...
« centralmnusa wrote on Monday, Jul 04 at 01:42 PM »
Dayton is correct to ask that the richest pay m...
« tom.55350 wrote on Monday, Jul 04 at 12:45 PM »
Our government needs to take drastic measures a...
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