All progress on the state budget came to a grinding halt this week when House Democrats broke an agreement with Republicans to move budget bills to the floor once they…
There were some whopper messages at the capitol this week reacting to the new budget forecast. The state budget office announced Thursday that the deficit in the 2028-29 biennium will…
Back in 1994, the economist Paul Krugman wrote: Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything. A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over…
Center of the American Experiment has long warned of the economic consequences of our state’s constant loss of residents to other parts of the United States. A common response from…
Today, my colleague Martha Njolomole and I presented in front of the House Ways and Means Committee. Our presentation was titled “Minnesota’s looming budget deficit: Tax hikes are not an option”…
HF 9 (same number even) was introduced, again, into the state House of Representatives yesterday. This is the same bill from before that would repeal the state’s ban on new…
A federal scholarship tax credit bill that would expand educational freedom to all 50 states has passed the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee and is headed to the U.S.…
Although neither the organization nor any of its staff have been charged with or accused of any wrongdoing, the nonprofit Somali Community Resettlement Services appears in a recently-filed Feeding Our…
Last week, a House bill — HF 2666 — was referred to the Ways and Means Committee. The bill, authored by Reps Hollins (DFL), Gomez (DFL), Agbaje (DFL), Keeler (DFL), Xiong…
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…
The Minnesota Legislature is about to build yet another new office building for themselves and once again, they’re doing it without ever taking a vote on the floor of the…
Anyone watching the House Ways and Means Committee Monday got a glimpse of the raw philosophical divide between Democrats and Republicans. It was brought to us by Rep. Jamie Becker-Finn…
Gov. Tim Walz will release a revised budget this week, reacting to the updated state budget forecast that changed its outlook from a $1.3 billion deficit to a $1.6 billion…
This morning, our economist, John Phelan, spoke before the House Ways and Means Committee on HF150, which would require that the inflation rate be included in the state economic forecast.
The discussion on extending the electric vehicle tax credit should revolve around one simple question: should low and middle-income taxpayers be subsidizing high-income earners for purchasing an electric vehicle that…
New newsletter calls out politicians who waste the Legislature’s time and taxpayers’ money.
Stanford University’s John E. Cogan has been writing brilliantly for decades about how federal entitlement spending has a nasty habit of growing a lot bigger and a lot faster than…
This afternoon, Center President John Hinderaker testified in front of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress in Washington D.C. on the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on…
Trade is one of the oldest topics in economics. It is also one of the oldest sources of economic dispute. Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776 largely to…
The Minnesota House Ways and Means Committee has scrapped the giveaway to wind developers that was initially included as part of the House Omnibus bill, and American Experiment played a part…
This is not your grandpa’s think tank.
Phelan tells the legislature that Minnesota’s economy is slumping down to the average.
Democrats are desperate to deflect responsibility for the monumental meltdown of the MNLARS vehicle registration system under the Dayton administration’s bungling bureaucracy. Legislative leaders are working on a measure to…
Yesterday, Center of the American Experiment spoke in front of the Ways and Means Committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives on the condition of the state's economy. Here you can…