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Burnsvile Council member offers innovative proposal to give taxpayers more control over how their money is spent
An intriguing idea from Burnsville City Council Member Cara Schulz would give the people who earned the money more control over how government spends it. ...
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A warning for Minneapolis: Rent control continues to wreak havoc with Berlin’s housing market
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote that Berlin’s rent controls had slowed house building in the city. To recap, the German capital’s population is growing rapidly which means that the demand ...
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Minnesota Corporate Tax Policy Should Mirror Iowa
Tax rates matter. They play a big role in how competitive a state economy is in relation to other states. Higher tax rates not only penalize hard working individuals, families and businesses, but they...
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A CEO gets a lesson in economics
Different workers produce different outputs. This is valued differently and, thus, compensated differently: "We realized that we had to pay attention to market forces"...
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Relative to the share of the state’s income they earn, ‘the rich’ in Minnesota are taxed disproportionately heavily and have been for years
Does this mean they are taxed too heavily? ...
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