Put this in the category of "really unlikely to happen," but here are the recommendations of the
bipartisan panel convened by Walter Mondale and Arne Carlson on the Minnesota government shutdown:
Mondale’s bipartisan group of six took only two days to recommend a 4 percent, across-the-board income tax hike on all Minnesotans, an increase in the cigarette tax by $1.29 per pack and a boost in the alcohol tax. Over time, they also want fewer items to be exempt from the sales tax.
As Republican legislative leaders were outraged at the notion of a tax increase on 0.3% of the state's population or a $1-per-pack cigarette tax increase, we can guess how amenable they'll be to a plan increasing income taxes on everyone and raising the cigarette tax by $1.29 per pack.
Meanwhile, with no end in sight to Minnesota's budget problems and with Republicans refusing to negotiate in good faith over how to fix it, the state's bond rating was downgraded.