DFL Talking point bullets about "Dayton's Compromise"

Taken From : Blois Olson's Morning Take A Minnesota tip sheet

DFL Talking point bullets about "Dayton's Compromise"

Getting Minnesota Working Again: Governor Dayton’s Compromise Solution is a $35.4 Billion Budget That Protects Minnesotans from $1.4 Billion in GOP Cuts

K-12 Education – Protects Against $128 million in GOP cuts  
·        Protects against cuts to 129,000 students who receive special education.
·        Protects against elimination of integration aid
·        Protects against vouchers.
·        Protects against an arbitrary and demoralizing A-F grading system for our schools.
·        Protects against collective bargaining restrictions.
·        Protects against repealing the desegregation statute and rule.
·        Protects local school districts from an unfunded and costly teacher evaluation proposal.

Health and Human Services – Protects Against $556 million in GOP cuts
·        Protects 140,000 Minnesotans from losing health care
·        Protects against long-term care cuts that would have forced 1,500 elderly and disabled people into more expensive nursing homes rather than home and community-based services.
·        Protects against drastic reduction in medical education and research funding.
·        Protects against cuts to mental health treatment funding that result in increased numbers of people with mental illness in our jails, emergency rooms and psychiatric hospitals.
·        Protects against a 50% cut to women’s primary health care services (family planning).
·        Protects substantial funding for Department of Health Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP) which aims to help Minnesotans live longer, healthier lives by reducing the burden of chronic disease and reduce long term healthcare costs.

Transportation – Protects Against $43 million in GOP cuts
·        Protects Greater Minnesota Transit.
·        Protects Metro Transit.

Public Safety – Protects Against $9 million in GOP cuts
·        Protects against significant reductions to civil legal services, victim services grants, and to the Department of Human Rights, chemical dependency treatment programs in our prisons.
·        Eliminates the 15% workforce reduction that would significantly reduce the number of prison guards and BCA investigators.

Economic Development –Protects Against $16 million in GOP cuts
·        Protects funding for Prevailing Wage Enforcement.
·        Protects the Minnesota Trade Office.
·        Protects the Minnesota Investment Fund and Redevelopment Fund.

Environment – Protects against $22 million in GOP cuts
·        Protects against MPCA and DNR cuts to permitting activities included in the GOP proposal that will reverse any progress made toward streamlining business permitting and cause delays in permitting decisions, lengthened permit review timeframes, and reduced capacity for early coordination and review of development projects.
·        Protects against deep cuts to clean water activities at the DNR and MPCA when Minnesotans voted for additional funding to protect, restore and enhance our waters.

State government – Protects against $219 million in GOP cuts
·        Protects against booking $97 million more in revenue than what the Department of Revenue has said they can bring in.
·        Protects against steep cuts to constitutional officers and state agencies.
·        Protects against reduction of the state workforce by 15% (approximately 4,800 people).
·        Protects state employees from 30% insurance premiums.

Property tax aids and credits – Protects Against $435 million in GOP cuts
·        Protects against additional increases in property taxes by $395 million including increases on economically strapped middle income homeowners and businesses all across the state.
·        Protects against increasing property taxes on 308,000 renters statewide by cutting renter refunds an average of 45%, including refunds to 85,000 senior and disabled renters.
·        Protects against raiding $60 million of local resources from the Doug Johnson Fund to help balance the state budget.