Our Legislature passed a $34 billion budget for the next two years that increased general-fund spending by 6 percent while erasing the $5 billion budget deficit. These budget bills, some of which received bipartisan support, were sent to Dayton for his consideration -- in May.

By Annette Meeks, StarTribune.com
They've moved on to the 21st century, but Dayton is stuck in the tax-and-spend '60s.
Last Thursday, California's liberal Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a balanced budget that doesn't raise income taxes.
Imagine that -- on the same day that Minnesota's governor insisted on implementing a significant income tax increase, California -- a state that faced a budget deficit five times larger than Minnesota's -- did the right thing. It is living within its means.
Fact is, we're the only state in the nation without a budget. That is because Gov. Mark Dayton is unable to shake the urge to fall back on the failed tax-and-spend politics of the 1960s.
It's hard to imagine how we got to this embarrassing budget impasse. It didn't have to happen.
Our Legislature passed a $34 billion budget for the next two years that increased general-fund spending by 6 percent while erasing the $5 billion budget deficit. These budget bills, some of which received bipartisan support, were sent to Dayton for his consideration -- in May.

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