Today is April 15, Tax Day, the deadline for paying your income taxes without having to pay a penalty.
As I noted yesterday, for 2025, the average earner will pay more state income tax in Minnesota than in 43 other states.
Also yesterday, my colleague Bill Glahn noted that spending by the state of Minnesota on 14 “at risk” Medicaid programs since 2018 totaled $21 billion.
Minnesota’s state government spends a lot of money. But it also gets ripped off a lot, and all too often, those who take your hard-earned money from you in taxes do very little to make sure it gets spent appropriately. That indifference to your money is one reason for the epidemic of fraud the state has seen in recent years.
When you hear all these numbers floating around for how much has been stolen, whether it is billions or “merely” hundreds of millions, remember, that the real victims are the hard working Minnesotans who get out of bed, put in a shift, and have to sign some portion of their earnings over to a state government that hasn’t been all that interested in protecting that money.
Happy Tax Day!
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