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From one of the posters on that Huff thread:

Let’s deconstruct some of the articles “facts”:

1) The article asserts that Dayton inherited a projected 6.2b budget deficit (Minnesota runs a biannual budget cycle, so that is 6.2b for the 2-years of July 2011 to June 2013). The fact is the deficit was a prediction that never materialized due to Dayton was running on the budget he INHERITED from the previous year’s legislature and Republican governor. This means the deficit that never materialized was mitigated by a budget designed and passed by Republicans who showed great restraint in both taxation and in spending.

2) “Dayton raised the income tax in his first four years in office”. The income tax was raised in April 2013, more than two years into his term, and only after the Democratic party won majorities in both the MN House and MN Senate. These taxes have had only one year (2014) to impact the economy of Minnesota and we are already seeing the negative results.

3) Dayton added 172,000 new jobs to the Minnesota economy during his first term. The claim comes from an October 2014 press release and ignores that for the first two years of his term Governor Dayton was running on the budget from the previous Republican Governor and majority Republican legislature and then on a budget drafted by a majority Republican legislature for the next two years. In other words, for his first term Dayton was running on Republican designed budgets (Minnesota runs on a two-year budget cycle).

4) A current projection of $1B surplus. Today, a new projection is due from MNOMB. If the projection is not revised down, the Democrats plan on increasing spending to spend all of the surplus and permanently increasing government spending.