Is it just me or are some of the slogans suggested for Tax Day Tea Party banners far from…. revolutionary? Attendees at next Wednesday’s Capitol rally are encouraged to download banners or make their own bearing mottos…
Tim Pawlenty’s lead anecdote in today’s State of the State address featured a Minnesota governor who sought national office only to be sent home empty-handed. The tale wasn’t autobiographical (good thing, because the man, Gov. John Johnson,…
The House Appropriations Committee released details Thursday about an $850 billion stimulus package crafted by congressional Democrats and President-elect Barack Obama. The package includes a hefty bit of infrastructure spending as well as relief for taxpayers earning under $200,000…
A KSTP/SurveyUSA poll conducted last week found that a plurality of Minnesotans want a combination of budget cuts and an increase in taxes to fix the historic $4.8 billion deficit now facing legislators and the governor. What’s…
Call it a Christmas present for gay and lesbian couples. President Bush signed the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 (WRERA) two days before Christmas. The new law makes it mandatory for businesses to roll over retirement benefits to a same-sex partner in the event of the employee’s death.
Republicans may have done crack oppo-research on Al Franken, but they couldn’t have also arranged for uncannily targeted third-party ad buys on local TV news … could they?
On WCCO-TV’s 10 p.m. news Wednesday, Amelia Santaniello teased…
Minnesota’s tax code just might be the holiest in the country.
That’s the finding by Susan Pace Hamill, a University of Alabama law professor whose expertise comes in the field of taxation — and…
Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed a tax bill Wednesday night over language that would have required the state to take inflation into account when preparing a budget, as it had before 2002.
“When legislators and the Governor assemble…
Editor’s Note: Matt Martin writes a column twice monthly on the 1st and 15th (he’s 2 days early). This article is cross-posted at MNpublius.
With this session’s most politically tenuous piece of major legislation finally hitting the Governor’s desk,…
Because absent a critical media, they can get away with it
Like war, taxes are a hot-button issue. Any discussion of them seems to get…
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