In the end, income tax increase may not have the votes

04/23/2007

A key legislator acknowledged the House plan targeting the rich may never make it to Gov. Pawlenty.


By Patricia Lopez,
Star Tribune
Last update: April 23, 2007

As the state House began work Monday on a tax bill that would provide tax relief to 90 percent of Minnesotans by raising income taxes on the highest earners, the head of the tax committee signaled that the income tax increase might never make it to the governor's desk.

House Taxes Committee Chairwoman Rep. Ann Lenczewski, DFL-Bloomington, predicted that the bill would pass the House but said that not every DFLer is expected to vote for it. Although DFLers hold a strong majority, with 85 seats, they would need at least a handful of Republican votes to override an expected veto by the governor. And those votes may be hard to find.

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