★ Clear Priorities ★
✪ Ensure Government lives within its means
✪ Promote quality education with fair funding
✪ Cut job-killing taxes
✪ Support our troops and veterans
★ Real Results - 2008 ★
✔ Eliminated $935 million budget deficit without raising taxes
✔ Capped local property tax increases at 3.9%
✔ Passed $60 million in additional property tax relief
✔ Stopped DFL plan to eliminate property tax deductibility
✔ Prevented $5 billion in DFL-proposed tax increases and new taxes
✔ Increased K-12 education funding by $51 per child
✔ Passed state income tax exemption for National Guard drill pay
✔ Doubled state income tax exemption for combat pay
✔ Funded new Minneapolis Veterans’ nursing home
✔ Passed market-based health care reforms