Letter: Taxpayers losing at state Capitol

To the Editor:

Within the first two weeks of the legislative session, the Democrats passed an 8 1/2 cents gas tax increase, a hike in automobile registration taxes, a car excise tax, an increase in the sales tax and a constitutional amendment to add another three-eighths of a cent to the sales tax. Can more tax increases be far behind?

Democrats will be hard-pressed to make the compromises that fiscal restraint requires with their special interest masters looking over their shoulder.

This will cost the average family of four $500 a year in higher taxes.

Thirteen months of DFL management of the state's budget has turned last year's $2.2 billion surplus into this year's projected $935 million deficit.

I want to know what Rep. Sandy Wollschlager and Senator Steve Murphy have to say to those who are losing their homes, to those on fixed incomes and to those who have lost their jobs and can't find work?

This is only the beginning. Wonder what the Democrat-controlled Congress has for us? I bet it's more taxes because that's their speciality and to heck with the taxpayers until re-election time.

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