Left & Right Should Heed David Walker’s Advice by Hindsight - From Minnesota 2020 on Mar 18, 2010 in Budget Education Taxation David Walker deficit spending reductions state budget deficit tax increase Taxes On Tuesday I had the opportunity to sit in on an interesting discussion between David Walker, former U.S. comptroller general and CEO of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) from 1998 to 2008, and the members of the Minnesota Senate and Ho...
Local Government More Frugal than State Government by Hindsight - From Minnesota 2020 on Mar 16, 2010 in Budget Minnesota Communities Taxation cities counties price of government revenue decline school districts state budget state budget deficit State Government Last August, a Minnesota 2020 analysis showed that real per capita Minnesota county, city, and school district revenue had declined since 2002, while state government revenue has increased. This analysis has been updated based on recently released...
Road Maintenance Might Become Your Personal Problem by Hindsight - From Minnesota 2020 on Mar 9, 2010 in Taxation Transportation Roads snow removal Taking a page straight from the Pawlenty playbook, Wilkin County has found a novel way of dealing with the cost of snow removal: it doesn’t. Minnesota rural counties, loath to follow the pattern of raising property taxes necessitated by Pawlenty’...
Road Maintenace Might Become Your Personal Problem by Hindsight - From Minnesota 2020 on Mar 9, 2010 in Taxation Transportation Roads snow removal Taking a page straight from the Pawlenty playbook, Wilkin County has found a novel way of dealing with the cost of snow removal: it doesn’t. Minnesota rural counties, loath to follow the pattern of raising property taxes necessitated by Pawlenty’...
Assessors Should be Allowed to Testify in Court by Hindsight - From Minnesota 2020 on Mar 7, 2010 in Budget Taxation assessment jurisdictions assessors counties local governments Minnesota Revenue Department property tax When a property owner appeals the county’s valuation of a property and the owner and the county assessor cannot come to an agreement as to the appropriate value for the property, the dispute is often turned over to the court system. The Minn...
February Forecast: No Real Improvement (Analysis from Jeff Van Wychen) by Hindsight - From Minnesota 2020 on Mar 1, 2010 in Budget Taxation February forecast GAMC GAMC Cuts Revenue spending state budget state deficit state general fund structural deficit Taxes Today’s release of the February forecast did not appreciably change the state’s budget situation. We are still confronting a very large deficit (about $1 billion) within the current biennium and a humongous deficit (approximately $7.8 billion)...
The Housing Market Should Be Respected, Not Tested by Hindsight - From Minnesota 2020 on Feb 28, 2010 in Budget Housing Minnesota Communities Taxation Governor Pawlenty Local Government Aid property taxes An important component of the governor’s budget proposal is the decreased support to local communities. Substantial cuts in Local Government Aid (LGA) and County Program Aid (CPA) will likely lead to cuts by county and city governments along with...
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