Hunhoff: Proposed Dem budget caps not ironclad

By David Montgomery
Published/Last Modified on Friday, Jan 15, 2010 - 11:30:40 am CST

Republicans yesterday criticized Democratic proposals to cap increases in government spending at 3 percent or the rate of inflation as tying the hands of government. Sen. Dave Knudson, a gubernatorial candidate, likened it to putting on a straitjacket and then diving into a river.

House Minority Leader Bernie Hunhoff today responsed to those criticisms. Democratic proposals wouldn't be an ironclad ban on excessive spending but would subject spending above that 3 percent limit to a supermajority vote, similar to how tax increases work today.

I'm not sure that clause will change the reception this proposal will get from Republicans — both Knudson and Faehn pronounced it dead in the water yesterday.

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