Minnesota is a state in free fall on every important aspect of quality of life–safety, education, government services, the economy. Twenty years of whacked Dem rule have taken an irreversible toll. The Center for the American Experiment has tracked that toll. It recently points out that Minnesota has the fifth highest per person state government spending in the country at $6100. That understates the real burden, because our local governments have ridiculously high spending as well. All that spending means our tax burden is exceptionally high as well, taxes of all kinds take an immense proportion of citizen’s income–income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, car license fees, and so on. And the state takes other actions that make electricity bills, water bills and other utilities expensive. All this is driving businesses and working people from the state. And now we know that a very large proportion of all the state spending goes to fraudsters and waste. I think we could literally cut government spending and taxes in half and everyone would be better off. But there is no such relief in sight. (CAE Post)
So it seems that a conservative is just screwed in this state. There’s basically no point in voting anymore because the elections are not even close. Wayzata schools just voted in a half billion spending bill and it passed with 60 to 70% voting for it. They also held it on April 14 when nobody is thinking about voting to sway it positive. Then I see the idiots in the Minnetonka city console just voted for April to be Arab American month (whatever that means) after property taxes just went up 10%.