MinnPost - Pawlenty has become Minnesota’s perpetual-deficit machine

But isn’t Pawlenty just a victim of being a governor during a recession?  Partly, but half of the projected deficit in the upcoming biennium is not from the declining economy but from a holdover projected deficit he refused to deal with in earlier years. He has consistently vetoed bills that would have restored revenues to bring budgets into balance into the future.

Pawlenty has taken to chiding the federal government for deficit spending, saying it should learn from governors who have to enact balanced budgets.  Hopefully his phone will be busy when the feds call for advice, for Pawlenty is famous for producing budgets that allow the books to balance in the short run by creating larger deficits in the future.

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