A recent post provoked outrage from one resident who thought I’d ridiculed him and his neighbors and dismissed their concerns. I had failed to make this point clearly: When you arrive at a meeting looking for a fight, you can’t expect to find a solution.
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Legislators who couldn’t resolve major deficit somehow found time to address trivial issues The month of August is often referred to as the dog days ...
Read More »Smith: If taxes are bad for us, then how did we get so healthy, wealthy and wise?
Here's a tax-and-budget Question for the Century, as we brace ourselves in Minnesota this summer for continued cuts to our state and local governments, all in the holy cause of not raising state income taxes ever again under any circumstances whatsoever.
Read More »Smith: If taxes are bad for us, then how did we get so healthy, wealthy and wise?
Here's a tax-and-budget Question for the Century, as we brace ourselves in Minnesota this summer for continued cuts to our state and local governments, all in the holy cause of not raising state income taxes ever again under any circumstances whatsoever.
Read More »Smith: If taxes are bad for us, then how did we get so healthy, wealthy and wise?
Here’s a tax-and-budget Question for the Century, as we brace ourselves in Minnesota this summer for continued cuts to our state and local governments, all ...
Read More »Smith: Minnesota joins Louisiana and Georgia as anti-tax holdouts among budget-battered states
Among the 20 states with the worst budget crises, Minnesota appears to be standing almost alone in failing to raise state tax revenues to address ...
Read More »Haynes: Farewell, Justice David Souter, defender of church-state wall
If you believe with Thomas Jefferson that the First Amendment builds “a high wall of separation between Church & State,” then you will sorely miss ...
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