The State Of The State, Minnesota Style

No new taxes, so I guess all is right with the world:

After weeks of crippling political deadlock, DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders emerged in the darkened Capitol on Thursday to announce they had brokered a budget deal to end the longest state government shutdown in U.S. history.

The deal raises the revenue Dayton sought -- $1.4 billion -- but without raising taxes, which Republicans opposed. Instead, it reaches back to an earlier GOP offer to rely primarily on more borrowing from schools and from the sale of tobacco bonds. The House and Senate could return in special session to vote on a final budget as early as Monday or Tuesday.

And the Democrats got concessions on a few social issues, including Republican demands on restricting public funding for stem cell research, abortion restrictions, and government worker layoffs.

As Minnesota goes, so goes DC???