Politicians love to exaggerate. One of their favorite claims is that something is the largest [fill in the blank] in Minnesota’s history – the largest spending increase, the largest tax cut, the biggest investment. House Speaker Kurt Daudt of Crown made one such claim in response to Gov. Mark Dayton’s proposed supplemental budget, which invests big in education. He said that with a nearly $1.9 billion budget surplus, Dayton should back off his plan to raise the state’s gas tax to pay for road and bridge construction. “Frankly, it would be the largest gas tax increase – I think – in state history,” Daudt said. 
PoliGraph: Largest gas tax in state history?
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