Threat of More Taxes Worries State Chamber Leaders
Business officials admit DFL majority makes them "a bit nervous."
As predictably as the sun rises in the east, the latest annual legislative agenda of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce is calling on state lawmakers to reform state spending and taxation. But what will be different when state lawmakers next month convene their 2013 session is that a single political party, the DFL, will control the executive and legislative branches for the first time since 1990. And that worries Chamber leaders. Especially following news this week that Minnesota faces a projected $1.1 billion budget shortfall in 2014-15 and Gov. Mark Dayton is likely to push for raising income taxes on the state's top wage earners, according to a Pioneer Press report. "I'm nervous about that and a lot of other business owners are too…
