But Ted Mondale was the first to lay out a comprehensive tax cut plan along with details about how he plans to pay for the cuts. If you're a candidate and you don't have an answer of how we can control spending, and you don't have old programs you can cut, you're telling people that we can continue to spend more, and therefore your taxes are going to go down.
Nobody believes that anymore.
It's not the truth Mondale has a ready list of spending cuts. First up are state employees. He says he'd instruct state agencies to stop replacing the employees that leave. He says he could save hundreds of millions of dollars more by getting rid of overlap between agencies and slowing the growth of their budgets. My first proposal is to reduce the half-cent sales tax, which would be a billion dollars over four years tax cuts for the residents of Minnesota.