By driving out wealthy citizens, it results in a loss of net revenue for the state's coffers.
The Congressional Budget Office's new Budget and Economic Outlook forecasts federal debt reaching nearly 100% of GDP by 2028. As Brian Riedl explains in an excellent commentary for the Manhattan Institute,…
If you tax something you get less of it. As it is for cigarettes, so it is for estates. Evidence suggests that Minnesota's estate tax incentivises people to leave the…
One line from the Legislative Auditor’s critical report tells you everything you need to know about the Minnesota Investment Fund (MIF), a taxpayer-funded program under the Minnesota Department of Employment…
Minnesota's budget is projected to be in deficit in 2018/2019 and 2020/2021. But tax cuts in St. Paul are not to blame. For one thing, there haven't been any.
Minnesota budget projections show a deficit of $188 million for the current two-year budget cycle, and a projected negative balance of $586 million for the 2020-21 biennium.
St. Paul comes clean about fees.
Minneapolis taxpayers will just have to wait and see how much Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges plans to jack up their property taxes next year. Hodges’ explanation for not releasing a…
If government's take less money from individuals or businesses, that does not mean they are handing money out to them
Whichever party it is, subsidizing business is a bad idea. If 'progressives' have discovered that, the Foxconn money may have been well spent after all
Economists Thomas Piketty and Arthur Laffer agree that high tax rates do not bring high tax revenues.
Minnesota is one of 18 states and the District of Columbia that levy either an estate or inheritance tax, often called death taxes. Among these states, a new report by…
If you tax something you get less of it. Policymakers from Peter the Great to Mark Dayton have not only acknowledged this being true, but have banked on it
Minneapolis has 400 empty lots on the North Side. In the Star Tribune, Neeraj Mehta advocates state government spending to build affordable housing. But the problem isn't that people cannot…
Governor Dayton’s team has projected a $1.87 billion-dollar surplus. Before anyone pats themselves on the back, recall that there is the not so small matter of a pension deficit. When…
Relying on fads, pseudoscientific planning and an enormous budget, the council has actually increased the cost of housing and created even greater traffic congestion.
CAE’s Nelson calls on Saint Paul to eliminate a revenue-producing fee that circumvents limits on taxation
Cigarette smuggling has soared since Minnesota imposed a $1.60 per pack excise tax increase in 2013, propelling the state to fifth highest for the crime in a new Tax Foundation…
How a Medicaid program for the Disabled is being exploited to fund DFL and Progressive Left Policies
Minnesota's border counties experience the competitive disadvantage of high taxes and hostile regulations
A Supreme Court decision could shut down the way cities have quietly raised revenues without raising taxes.
Peter Nelson's updated report.
The Minnesota Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling today that declared a fee charged by the City of St. Paul to fund road maintenance was in fact a tax that…
A walk in the park may be just that to most of us, but not the Met Council. It all depends on who’s taking a walk in the park. A…