Tough sailing ahead for budget deal
Observers are skeptical before political leaders convene at Lake Vermilion resort.
House GOP details $2B tax cut
Critics of the spending plan zeroed in on a business property tax cut that starts small, but grows exponentially in the near future.
GOP plan phases out business property tax
House Republicans introduced the specifics behind their $2 billion tax cut in a Monday announcement, detailing a broad agenda that would slash income, business and sales taxes.
Six GOP governors who are ready to raise taxes
Stung by slowing revenue streams, a few Republican governors, led by Sam Brownback of Kansas and John Kasich of Ohio, have gone so far as to propose their own tax hikes.
Winkler left mark on Session ’14
The 38-year-old Golden Valley representative has emerged as one of the DFL's most outspoken progressives.
States may be expanding wealth gap
Economic statistics show that incomes for the top 1 percent of U.S. households soared 31 percent from 2009 through 2012, after adjusting for inflation, yet inched up an average of 0.4 percent for those making less.
Greiff: Tax cuts don’t work miracles
The recent record suggests those states that cut taxes find themselves with bigger deficits and none of the economic revival that might stop the population loss plaguing the Rust and Farm belts.
Tax cuts, take two
House Taxes Committee moves bill to aid renters, homeowners and farmers.
Senate tax cut vote delayed until Friday morning session
Senate Minority Leader David Hann argued that the bill was not fully vetted.
Business lobby gives mixed marks to GOP majorities
The change in Minnesota politics wrought by the 2010 election created equal measures of optimism and concern among the business groups that lobby state lawmakers.
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