Minnesota voters will be asked to vote on a constitutional amendment to establish a fund for 25 years to aid natural resources and the arts. We are being asked to raise our state's general sales tax from 6.5 to 6.87, a small priceto pay, to ensure our future family's health and well-being.
It covers our drinking water sources, wetlands and wildlife habitat, arts and cultural heritage, parks and trails, and our lakes, rivers and streams.
This is so important and I hope that each voter reads this question carefully and responds positively. What better gift could we leave as our legacy?
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I respectfully disagree (sorry, Lois). I think that arts and conservation are important but I don't think we should be amending our constitution for them. Let's have our legislators take on the issue of increasing taxes for this purpose.
What happened to all the money from the Minnesota State Lottery that was to pay for conservation? I agree some of these programs needs to be funded but I believe we already give over $50 billion to the state-You would think that there may be some pork or other outdated programs that should be defunded. -I see this vote as a easy fix when hard decisions should to be made.
I am going to have to agree with Mom on this one (yea...go mom!!). I hope many of you have voted and this will not obviously change your mind. But our State Legislators have been "discussing" providing adequate funding for the proposed areas within this constitutional amendment. The unfortunate part is the constant grid lock when making decisions / change within State Legislature. The area they did come to agreement on was reaching out to their constituents (us voters) and finding out if we truly wanted to specifically fund these areas (hence this years ballot initiative). I am one of the "geeky" ones that actually watches much of the State House and Senate debates. They have painful lengthy discussions making tough funding decisions on "necessary" State wide programs. Both sides of the isle did not feel comfortable appropriating funds for "extras" last session. In my opinion these "extras" are vital to our State in a variety of ways now and more importantly for future generations.
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