Re: With 4 days left before Minn. government shutdown, GOP...

[Guest guest]

Given what I have read about many college professors and administrators at the big universities getting 6 figure and up salaries, maybe they could get pay cuts to be more in line with reality. I know they have a specialized skill, but they couldn't get those lofty salaries without being on the government dole or without government backed student loans.

There are certainly many other vastly overpaid bureaucrats who could also take pay cuts. As for the rest, if the Dems insist on seeing social services cut, so be it, it will mostly harm their own constituents.

In a message dated 6/27/2011 5:16:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

Republicans have been firm in their insistence that the state not spend more than $34 billion in its next budget, or the amount that state coffers are currently projected to collect over two years. Dayton wants another $1.8 billion or so in new revenue, mostly in new taxes on upper earners, in order to blunt what he says are unacceptable cuts to medical assistance, college campuses, transit programs and other government services.