Rep. Zack Stephenson’s stint as House DFL leader has got off to a disappointing start. Back in 2023, the “historic” DFL trifecta enacted a 1% sales tax in the seven-county…
One of the few things we know with reasonable certainty about the budget brewing in St. Paul is that data centers will be required to pay sales tax on their…
In December, I wrote about the formation of a “Blue Dog Coalition” in the Minnesota Senate. This is a group of eight DFL senators who, among other things, promise to…
Back from his failed bid for the Vice Presidency, Gov. Walz released his proposed budget for FY 2026-27 yesterday. As my colleague Bill Glahn noted, “This exercise is largely meaningless, with…
Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance visited Minneapolis yesterday. Standing outside the ruins of the Third Precinct, he painted an unflattering picture of our state’s biggest city, suggesting that it was…
A couple of years ago, I wrote that: Shortly after moving to Minnesota in 2017, my wife and I went to see a Saint Paul Saints game. Arriving early, we…
The 2024 legislative session crashed to a conclusion late Sunday night amid scenes of chaos as the DFL rammed through a 2,800 page Omnibus Bill that nobody had read and…
Last week I noted that, because of the “The ideological divide between the two main parties in the state legislature… we actually see some rather profound debates up at the…
The DFL is proposing yet another tax hike. HF 3566 would, MPR News reports: …update Minnesota’s current electronics waste law, which was passed back in 2007 — the year the…
Two weeks ago I wrote about a proposal from some DFL legislators in St. Paul to hike Minnesota’s state sales tax, with the revenue dedicated to housing programs. Now, the…
Last year, Minnesota’s legislature blew through an $18 billion budget surplus and hiked taxes and fees by another $10 billion for good measure. You might think that would sate the…
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,…
Tomorrow, voters in a number of Minnesota localities will go to the polls to decide whether or not their locality can impose or increase its sales tax. Is this a…
In the last session, Minnesota’s legislature voted to raise taxes on Minnesotans by more than $9 billion over the next four years. But the legislators at the capitol aren’t the…
You’ve probably noticed that you pay a 6.875 percent sales tax on the electricity you use in your household unless that electricity is for heating your home. This means that…