........“I think when the voters passed the Legacy in 2008, nobody thought they were creating a slush fund for earmarks,” (Sheila Smith)
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Legacy funds to supplant existing state spending....Wait a minuite!
In 2008, Minnesota voters passed a constitutional amendment that increased the state sales tax by three-eighths of 1 percent to pay for outdoors and cultural projects. In the 2009 legislative session, lawmakers set out to appropriate the money in a way that satisfied the strictures of the amendment. Among the thorniest issues they faced was the requirement that Legacy dollars be spent to supplement, rather than supplant, existing state spending. (Charley Shaw)
........“I think when the voters passed the Legacy in 2008, nobody thought they were creating a slush fund for earmarks,” (Sheila Smith)
........“I think when the voters passed the Legacy in 2008, nobody thought they were creating a slush fund for earmarks,” (Sheila Smith)
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