Pawlenty recommends borrowing money to deal with Minnesota's budget deficit (higher than California's on a per capita basis) while telling Fox news how wrong it is for the feds to continue borrowing money. Which way do you want it Tim Pawlenty?
He's just another borrow-and-spend neocon who sucked a bunch of people into believing he did them a favor by holding the line on income taxes while driving their property taxes through the roof.
The proposal would issue bonds that would net the state $973 million in the upcoming budget -- fresh revenue that could be used to forestall even deeper cuts to health care, higher education and other services. But the funds would come at a price: The state would have to repay as much as $1.6 billion over the next 20 years
"My grandchildren will be paying off this debt," said Rep. Jean Wagenius, DFL-Minneapolis, at a committee hearing."
"I'm quite concerned about the federal government spending money it doesn't have," Pawlenty said. "We're on an unsustainable path of deficit spending and borrowing."