The GOP continues to play the "let's see who can cut taxes the most while ignoring the financial problems." Today's winner is Tim Pawlenty. The pandering to the far right may help him with the extremist crowd but back in the real world, there are costs associated with these policies. It's irresponsible but there's a lot of that going around among the political class. Current Minnesota governor Mark Dayton is unimpressed.
"I think it's ironic that he's talking about a fiscal plan for the entire country when he left his state a mess," Gov. Mark Dayton said in an interview. "He decided he was going to leave and left it to his successor. They knew they were going to kick this down the road."More from AMERICAblog Elections: The Right's Stuff, including Pawlenty's fascinating new method for cutting federal programs. It's called "The Google Test."
In speeches, including the one Tuesday at the university where Obama taught law, Pawlenty boasts that he balanced the Minnesota budget during his time in office although he fails to mention he left behind a projected $5 billion deficit.
Dayton said the cuts under consideration for the next two-year budget include cuts to special education programs, increases in college students' tuition and limited availability of home health care for seniors to offset the deficits.
