Spending & Taxes
For 2025, the average earner will pay more state income tax in Minnesota than in 43 other states
Tomorrow is the deadline for Minnesotans to file their 2025 taxes. When he or she does, the average earning, single filing Minnesotan will hand over 4.9% of their 2025 wages to the state government, a higher share than in 43 out of 50 other states,…
Capitol Watch: New tax on wealth?
The legislature returned to work on Tuesday after their Easter/Passover break. According to the…
State government is squeezing school budgets and…
Back in 2023, the “historic” DFL trifecta enacted a K-12 education bill which included a $2.2…
Two charged in Anoka Co. welfare fraud
From Fox-9, Anoka County couple charged in $800K public benefits fraud probe. The exact dollar…
Before $11 million fraud trial, defendant flees country
Lou Raguse of KARE-11 has the report that Abdirashid Ismail Said, accused of an $11 million Medicaid…
How to control property taxes and ease affordability for Minnesotans
This week I’ve looked at how property tax hikes are making life less affordable for Minnesotans and at how it is not rising property values but increased local government spending which has driven these hikes. Given this diagnosis, what are we to do…
Keith Ellison campaign donor pleads guilty in food…
Gandi Yusuf Mohamed pled guilty in the Feeding Our Future case this morning at the federal…
Feeding Our Future, sentence #10, over three years
Abdullahe Nur Jesow was sentenced to 43 months in federal prison, becoming just the tenth defendant…
Should Minnesota expand free college?
On Tuesday afternoon, the Senate Higher Education Committee heard SF 3754 and SF 4692 — two bills…
The spending is the problem
Yesterday, I explained the complex process by which those property tax payments which hammer…
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