House Tax Bill Blasts Homeowners Narrowly Passes
How Did Your Representative Vote?
(April 25, 2009) St. Paul--One day after the Minnesota Senate voted to raise income taxes on all Minnesotan’s, the Minnesota House Tax bill that increases income tax on top income earners to 9 percent, eliminates the mortgage interest deduction (replacing with a credit worth half as much), removes the deductibility of property taxes, eliminates the relative homestead market value credit (MVC), increases cigarette taxes by 54 cents, increases drink taxes by 3 to 5 cents, and caps the child care tax credit at $200, narrowly passed the House Floor.
Again, Democrat Farmer Labor caucus leaders allowed (18) suburban, vulnerable, or swing district legislators to vote against the tax increases but insured they had just enough votes to pass the bill. Headed to conference committee REALTORS® and the general public are urged to pay extra special attention to the process, negotiations, and resulting language changes from here on out. Of course, whatever comes out of conference committee will likely still have a number of provisions the Governor still finds unreasonable. Suffice to say legislators and the Governor still have their work cut out for them. While one can only speculate as to the intricacies of the final package, glimpses at what is to come for the end game have certainly started to emerge.
Note: Bold below are ‘crossover DFLers’ (DFLers who voted no).
Who Represents You?
How Did Your Representative Vote?
Those who voted in the affirmative were:
Anzelc
Atkins
Bigham
Bly
Brown
Brynaert
Carlson
Champion
Clark
Davnie
Dill
Eken
Falk
Faust
Fritz
Greiling
Hansen
Hausman
Haws
Hayden
Hilstrom
Hilty
Hornstein
Hortman
Hosch
Huntley
Johnson
Juhnke
Kahn
Kalin
Kelliher
Knuth
Koenen
Laine
Lenczewski
Liebling
Lieder
Lillie
Loeffler
Mahoney
Mariani
Marquart
Morrow
Mullery
Murphy, E.
Murphy, M.
Nelson
Newton
Norton
Olin
Paymar
Persell
Peterson
Reinert
Rukavina
Sailer
Sertich
Simon
Slawik
Slocum
Solberg
Thao
Thissen
Tillberry
Wagenius
Ward
Welti
Winkler
Those who voted in the negative were:
Abeler
Anderson, B.
Anderson, P.
Anderson, S.
Beard
Benson
Brod
Buesgens
Bunn
Cornish
Davids
Dean
Demmer
Dettmer
Dittrich
Doepke
Doty
Downey
Drazkowski
Eastlund
Emmer
Gardner
Garofalo
Gottwalt
Gunther
Hackbarth
Hamilton
Holberg
Hoppe
Howes
Jackson
Kath
Kelly
Kiffmeyer
Kohls
Lanning
Loon
Mack
Magnus
Masin
McFarlane
McNamara
Morgan
Murdock
Nornes
Obermueller
Otremba
Pelowski
Peppin
Poppe
Rosenthal
Ruud
Sanders
Scalze
Scott
Seifert
Severson
Shimanski
Smith
Sterner
Swails
Torkelson
Urdahl
Westrom
Zellers