Vote "NO" November 4th

The so-called Legacy Amendment might just have the proper moniker after all.
You see, this sham of a proposal facing Minnesota tax payers will, if passed, be around to haunt us for the next 25 years, if not forever, given the nature of all preceding tax hikes.
What?
You didn't realize that this was just another tax hike?
Yep. Sure is.
Dressed up in warm, fuzzy, innocuous- sounding verbiage about clean air and water, but a tax hike none the less.
Now, before you go off thinking I am against clean water and clean air, let me explain:
The stated purpose of this amendment is fine. We ALL want a clean place to live and raise our families.

However, the methodology to actually DO this is totally, absolutely, and impossibly WRONG for several reasons.
The original intent of this bill from more than 10 years ago, was to give more money and attention to our environment. It was supposed to come from General Funds of Minnesota tax dollars.
But, I get ahead of myself.
Remember the State Lottery? It, too, was supposed to pay for what you are now being asked to approve. THAT money somehow found its way into the General Fund.
In the meantime, our DFL legislature, with its penchant for spending, has drained most of those environmental lottery funds as well.
Now, they are asking us to cough up another $11 BILLION ( yes, billion...) to fund some lofty, as yet undefined, vision of "environmental protection."
Oh yeah, 14% of it will go to "arts" projects, which also remain undefined.
It gets worse.
The control over this $11 Billion will be made by (you guessed it,) an as yet undefined committee. WITHOUT oversight by you, the taxpayer, or the Legislature. And the DNR has made no secret of the fact that they do not wish to have citizens on this decision making committee.
So what does that leave us with?
An enormous money pool to be spent without our approval or intervention, but funded for minimum of 25 years, by tax payers.
The final reason this plan is wrong is that budget decisions should be made in real- time, just like you and businesses have to do. You spend according to the needs and the money available to you AT THE TIME.
If we as citizens are to be charged with making long- range budgetary decisions, why do we need any legislators at all?
Legacy Amendment?
I think not.
I hope you will see this for the money- grab that it is and VOTE NO.