February 2022

Reduce taxes to give surplus back Minnesota has, what is being called, a surplus of $7.7 billion. The governor wants to only “give” a fraction of that back and expect us to be grateful? Or, perhaps provide him with a vote in November? How much administrative cost will it be in order to pass out this small fraction along with insuring that “only” those that provided this surplus gets their fair share? Wouldn’t it be cheaper and easier to reduce each legal Minnesota taxpayer’s burden by 10 or 15% for however long it would take to defer this $7.7 billion back to the taxpayer? Wouldn’t that prevent much of the overhead, missed payments and fraudulent claims to that money? We should be growing weary of politicians attempting to gain political points by “giving” something back that they should have never “taken” in the first place.