The time bomb
A variety of words have been used to describe the 2023 Minnesota legislative session. Depending on which side of the political aisle you place yourself, the session was either “bonkers”…
A variety of words have been used to describe the 2023 Minnesota legislative session. Depending on which side of the political aisle you place yourself, the session was either “bonkers”…
Many people have asked me to comment on the civil litigation in state court between the state Department of Education (MDE) and the now-defunct free-food charity Feeding Our Future and…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a new study which found that working from home is here to stay. I concluded by noting that: If this holds for…
Last week, KSTP released the results of its KSTP-TV/SurveyUSA poll conducted in late January. In the area of fiscal policy, its main findings relating to the last session were: Source: KSTP-TV/SurveyUSA So,…
The Minnesota Legislature is about to build another new office building for themselves, and the Golden Turkey committee is here for it. Without a single vote on the floor of…
We are now up to 70 defendants in the free-food program scandal. The always alert Lou Raguse of KARE 11 was out with a story this afternoon. The U.S. Attorney…
Yesterday, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota indicted Defendant No. 61 in the free-food scandal. The indictment of Hoda Ali Abdi of Burnsville, proprietress of the Alif Halal grocery store, can…
In 2022, Governor Walz ran promising COVID-relief “Walz checks,” which would amount to up to $2,600 for a family of four. On January 30, 2023, according to the Centers for…
Minnesota has one of the most progressive tax systems in the country. That is, high-income earners pay higher tax rates compared to low-income earners. According to a recently published study…
The new issue of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy is out and it contains a study by economists Joshua Rauh and Ryan Shyu titled “Behavioral Responses to State Income Taxation of High Earners:…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the ridiculous proposal to impose a tax on unrealized capital gains in Minnesota. If the value of, say, the shares that an…
Are you one of those people who check the box every year on your taxes to designate $5 to the political party of your choice, only to wonder how that…
But the globe-trotting adventures of guilty plea No. 13 have been extended for another month. Earlier this week, a federal judge in Minneapolis denied the overseas travel request of Ahmed…
The $730 million renovation and expansion of the State Office Building may somehow be worse than previously thought. A recent review of the 2022 House Rules Committee meeting where the…
An organization called Americans For Tax Fairness released an incredibly bad report recently which claimed that, as they explained on Twitter: Was this written by someone who simply doesn’t know…
Sharon Ross, of St. Paul’s House of Refuge Outreach, entered a guilty plea yesterday in the free-food fraud case, in Federal court in Minneapolis. Ross’ case is notable in that…