Minnesota RINOs are the worst negotiators on the planet. Despite Republicans controlling the State House, Democrats continue to get their way. MN residents made it clear that high taxes, including the costly vehicle tab fee, must be reduced. RINOs gave Minnesota the tab fee reduction BUT it comes at a cost: It was attached to a bloated bonding bill (HF719) that gives us $1.24B of debt, $46.5M in project spending, and spending $254M of surplus dollars to cover for a one year tab fee reduction.

$254M may sound like a lot but it is only covering for a 0.29% cut in tab fees! That is totally pathetic. With 5.5 million registered vehicles in MN, that will be a drop in the bucket. You could find better deals in a junk mail coupon book than the deals Demuth negotiates with Democrats.

The high vehicle tab fee had to be addressed but leave it to RINOs to attach all kinds of wasteful pork to it! Taxpayers do not want to see our state given over one billion dollars in debt! Taxpayers do not want to have their surplus dollars wasted. Taxpayers are sick of the bloated omnibus bills that hide all kinds of fraud, woke policy, and wasteful spending. Despite the grassroots opposition, RINO Mary Franson championed this insane debt bill.

While grassroots conservatives wouldn’t think twice in rejecting the bloated $1.24B debt bill, the vast majority of elected Republicans fell in line with the Establishment and voted with Democrats for the massive debt! There are 99 GOP state legislators in Minnesota and only 18 voted no! This includes 7 in the Senate and 11 in the House.

See Senate vote below:

See House vote below:

As seen above, all Democrats voted for the massive debt. The fiscally conservative position was a no vote. State Auditor candidate and drunk driver Elliott Engen left his constituents voiceless by not taking a vote at all.

This bill was NOT a simple reduction of the tab fee, they took away $254M from the general fund to do this and the tab fee reduction only lasts a year! They are robbing taxpayers but are conveniently leaving that part out. If they instead cut the cost permanently and forced the state government to absorb the cost, A4L would have no complaints!

To make matters worse, this bill could have been the GOP’s biggest tool for leverage. A bonding bill requires the support of 3/5ths of the legislature in both chambers which means that the GOP could withhold their votes unless they get something very substantial in return. This tab fee reduction is small potatoes and shows that the status quo continues with RINOs like Lisa Demuth in charge.

While some of the bonding measures are for good, neutral, or mundane projects, others are blatantly ridiculous. In one instance, there is $800K of debt to plant more trees around the Capitol building! They are also giving the woke U of M $75M of debt, the broken Met Council gets over $57.8M of debt, an immigrant-focused recreation center gets $1.5M of debt, and selected businesses are receiving government handouts.

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