Shelley Madore

Madore had no problem voting for one of the largest tax increases in state history. Other than making up lies to justify her vote, there was also the supposed reasoning that there just wasn’t any room in the budget to pay for transportation needs without raising taxes.

If the budget really is so crammed with critical priority spending that raised taxes were necessary, how did Madore find room to spend $35 million on trivial non-critical items??

This session Madore has proposed the following:

• $10 Million for the Minnesota Zoological Garden
• $5 Million for the Minnesota Zoological Garden to plan on implementing their “master plan”
• $4 Million for a high-speed rail line between St. Paul and Chicago
• $10 Million to the city of Burnsville to build a Burnsville Performing Arts Center
• $6 Million to build a Met Council Transit Station

Now each of these projects may very well be worthwhile but in a year where we can’t even find money to pay for critical expenses such as transportation, is this the time to be paying for non-critical items?? Think about that next time you fill up on gas and pay those new taxes.

Defenders might point out that these items are being paid for via bonding. However, when the GOP offered to pay for roads with bonding, DFLers like Madore said it wasn’t fair to make our children pay for our spending. If our children shouldn’t help pay for long term critical infrastructure like roads, how is it that it is fair for them to pay for things like zoological gardens??

Madore You’re Letting Us Down….And Taxing Us To Death!!

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