GOP Rural Caucus: 2013 Legislative Session Review

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What the 2013 state budgetmeans for rural families...

Rural Minnesota families will pay more for historic tax-and-spending

increases, but receive lower priority for state funding.

Metro legislators proposed overreaching legislation that burdens our enviable way of life.

Overreaching burdens:

Members of the Rural Caucus worked hard to protect our nursing homes, group homes and

hospitals, because we understand the availability and accessibility to long-term care facilities and

critical care is not only crucial for our aging populations and their families, but also fundamental

to the survival of our rural communities.

Rural Minnesota Pays More for Less

Government Overreach Burdens Our Quality of Life

Protecting OurNursing Homes, Group Homes and Hospitals

Families can expect to pay more for:

Energy bills Health insurance Income taxes

Vehicle registration Paint Groceries

Underfunded metro mandates imposed on our schools take away local control

Forced unionization of independent childcare providers Anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment proposals

Rural Minnesota receives less:

K-12 education funding Local Government Aid (LGA) Legacy funding

Roads and bridges funding Nursing home funding Hospital reimbursements

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Taxes

& Spending

Every man, woman andchild will pay more under

the historic 2013 tax-and-spend budget.

EVERYONE PAYS MORE

$2.1 billion in new taxes

Hundreds of millions in fees

WASTEFUL SPENDING

$3 billion in new spending

Government set to grow by 10%, while the

economy lags behind at 2% growth 1,300 new government jobs

BURDENS ON RURAL MINNESOTA

New warehousing and storage tax will raise thecost of gas and groceries

70% of property tax relief goes to the metro

Mom and pop shop taxes increased

Cigarette tax upped to $2.83/pack

Tens of millions of dollars went to Minneapolis,

St. Paul bailouts

Environment, NaturalResources & Energy

RURAL MINNESOTANS WILL PAY MORE

Energy bills will skyrocket because of new solarpower mandates

Paint will cost more to pay for a duplicativerecycling program

Dozens of new jobs at the DNR and MPCA

NO PERMITTING REFORM

Permitting reform helps cut red tape thatscares many job providers from expanding orrelocating here, but no reform bills were heardin committee

Education

Our schools will see a negative impact to theirbudgets when they are asked to do more with less.

MANDATES CANCEL OUT FUNDING

INCREASES

Per pupil funding increased by $158

Underfunded special education

All-day kindergarten expansion creates unduehardships on rural schools that dont have thenecessary infrastructure to house more students

New layers of state bureaucracy have theauthority to take away local control andwithhold funding

MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL PRIORITIZEDOVER RURAL SCHOOLS

Mpls/St. Paul schools: $13,700 per student

Rural schools: $9,900 per student

Rural students have higher graduation rates,test scores and better performance than manyof the schools that receive the most funding

Agriculture

FARMERS WILL PAY

MORE

Sales tax expansionon labor for equipmentrepairs, plus newwarehousing and storage taxes

Business-to-business tax expansion

Cost hikes (direct and indirect) associated withall tax increases


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How your tax

dollars are spent

HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES 29.9%

K-12 EDUCATION 40.9%

TRANSPORTATION 0.6%

ENVIRONMENT & AGRICULTURE 0.8%

JOBS & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 1.0%

STATE GOVERNMENT 2.4%

CAPITAL INVESTMENT 3.9%

PUBLIC SAFETY & JUDICIARY 5.0%

HIGHER EDUCATION 7.3%

TAXES 8.1%

Jobs & the Economy

The 2011 Republican budget forced governmentto live within its means. Our commonsenseapproach resulted in surpluses, more investmentin the private economy and lower unemployment.

The 2013 budget changes the course of thiseconomic recovery.

AT RISK: JOBS & ECONOMIC RECOVERY

Government will grow 5 times faster than theeconomy

Historic new taxes lower our statescompetitiveness

The Dakotas, Wisconsin and Iowa are alreadycompeting for our jobs

Transportation

RURAL MINNESOTANS WILL PAY MORE

Metro Light Rail life support

Metro Transit subsidies for bus and rail

Drivers license fee increased

Wheelage tax doubled

Local Government Aid

The Local Government Aid formula was changedto send more money to the metro. The split hastraditionally favored Greater Minnesota 69/31but its headed to 50/50. Out of the $80 millionin increased funding this year, $22 million goes toMinneapolis/St. Paul.

Health Care

Even with over $2 billion inhigher taxes, the health andhuman services (HHS) budgetincludes irresponsible cuts

and unsustainable accountinggimmicks. Hardworking taxpayerswill be on the line for over a billion dollars in HHSdeficits by 2020.

RURAL MINNESOTANS WILL PAY MOREFOR HEALTH INSURANCE

Federal health care expansion and overreachingmandates in the states health insuranceexchange will drive up premium costs foreveryone

Rural Minnesota is at risk of subsidizingexpensive metro health care

CAREGIVERS COUNT

Nursing home caregivers received a 5% rateincrease

Unfortunately, personal care attendants onlyreceived a 1% rate increase, making it difficultto retain local quality staff

Billboard placed near Moorhead, Minnesota.


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Documents

GOP Rural Caucus: 2013 Legislative Session Review