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They Did What? MN Legislature's Actions You Like ... or Dislike
What's your take on Minnesota's higher cigarette and income taxes, same-sex marriage law, all-day kindergarten funding, gun control measures, minimum wage and more?
What do you like—or dislike—in what the Minnesota Legislature did or didn't do? Leave a comment below.
The Star Tribune posted a handy list of issues the Minnesota Legislature did and didn't tackle in the session that ended Monday at midnight. Love 'em? Hate 'em? Leave a comment below.
DID:
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- OK'd higher taxes on income and cigarettes
- Funded all-day kindergarten statewide
- Let home child-care providers and personal care assistants unionize
- OK'd same-sex "civil marriages"
- OK bonds for $109 million in state Capitol renovations
- Froze tuition at state colleges and universities
DIDN'T DO:
- No new tax on clothing
- No higher taxes on alcohol, sports memorabilia, gas or "snowbirds"
- No increase in the minimum wage
- No full payback on "school shift"
- No ban on assault weapons or universal background checks for firearms buyers
- No driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants
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Which actions the Minnesota Legislature took do you support or oppose? Leave a comment below.
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