Spending & Taxes
Fraud? What fraud?
From today’s Star Tribune, Trump claims Minnesota lost billions to fraud. The evidence to date isn’t close. The Star Tribune‘s figure? $152 million. Or $0. I’m not kidding. They write, A review of court records shows the alleged…
The Somali factor
Former Star Tribune editor Patricia Lopez wrote on Bloomberg November 26, under the headline, We can…
DFL remains in denial about Minnesota’s runaway…
Yesterday, we learned that Minnesota’s state government was forecast to run a budget surplus for the…
Wall Street Journal discovers Minnesota fraud
Three (3) items published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal touch on different aspects of the…
short-term surplus hides a persistent and growing…
Earlier today, Minnesota Management (MMB) released the November 2025 budget forecast. Some good…
Five takeaways from the budget forecast
Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) released the budget forecast Thursday showing a $2.4 billion surplus in the current biennium (2026-27) and a $2.9 billion deficit in the next biennium (2028-29). After the budget presentation, the politicians…
Economic slowdown that hasn’t happened cannot explain…
Back in March, Minnesota Management & Budget (MMB) released its February Budget and Economic…
surplus in 2026-27, deficit in 2028-29
Later today, Minnesota Management & Budget (MMB) is due to release its November forecast for the…
The fraud next time
That didn’t take long. The employee whistleblower Twitter (X) account @Minnesota_DHS has been…
Minnesota’s epidemic of fraud makes national news
Then… In August 1973, the cover of TIME magazine featured a man in a plaid shirt standing in a boat…
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