First, before any tax increases, the state should cut wasteful spending on non governmental items. Secondly, the state should explain the spending of the last voter approved sales tax increase. Third, the state should also explain the 60/40 split in transportation dollars and how they are being allocated before seeking another sales tax increase for transportation. As for the business tax, this would obviously be passed on to the consumer meaning the $500 property tax relief would really go from the property owner toward their purchases and back to the state in the form of taxation. Governments are not known for giving people their money back. Governments find ways to take your money and make it look like somebody else's fault.

That will not happen (cut in wasteful spending) Matt, the state government is running amok thinking the last election was a mandate. With this loss and the additional .25% transportation...these people think that the population is a huge open bank without any stop in the cash flow.

Looking at the budget numbers and the make up of the state legislature and the Governor's plans I didn't ever believe or count on receiving the rebate. Generally though I think it's best to not count chickens before they've been deposited into your bank account.

I was never planning on a refund and felt that it was crazy to even consider a refund when we need to be paying down our debt (especially to our schools). I have as much confidence in this rebate as I have in Social Security when I retire.

I don't remember any property tax rebate? Are they asking us to dream about what we would have done with $500. I am glad to see that Gov. "Blank Stare" Dayton gave up on the B2B tax. As if Minnesota wasn't already a nightmare for taxes, let's add a new one. I will this again ask a question to the everyone. What will fix the Minnesota Budget woes faster... increased taxes or spending cuts?

Cut wasteful spending and stop giving money to illegal alien here in Minnesota.

I think another good idea proposed last year but generally ignored, is to make English the official language of Minnesota. It costs the state a bundle to translate every government document into twelve languages, and to pay a mass of translators for every alien who comes to Minnesota because we're a soft touch, and we tend to look the other way when it comes to illegals. If they want something from the state, they need to learn to ask for it in the language of the land they have chosen to live in.

The 'loss' of a $500 rebate means the same to me as the 'loss' of $1,000,000. it is not something I have to lose. Dayton is in so far over his head that it isn't even funny. In fact, I can't hear anyone laughing.