By John A. Spry St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) – April 23, 2017 You might think that President Donald Trump and Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton don’t have a lot in common. But they both use the same flawed reasoning to claim that they can create jobs by borrowing money to fund construction projects. They produce bogus […]
By John A. Spry St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) – November 1, 2018 Democrats in California and Vermont said they wanted single-payer health care. However, they have been unable to get a majority of lawmakers to pass the massive tax hikes needed to finance single-payer. Minnesota Democrats have a plan to create a statewide single-payer health plan funded […]
By John A. Spry St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) – January 8, 2017 One of the first acts of both the new Minnesota Legislature and Congress should be to eliminate the possibility of the train wreck of a government shutdown. Currently, the government shuts down when government spending bills are not passed into law before […]
In 2011 I testified before the Minnesota House Tax Committee about the Economics of Taxation; Theory and Evidence for Budget Evaluation. My PowerPoint Slides are available here.
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In 2009, the Minnesota Governor’s 21st Century Tax Reform Commission appointed by Governor Tim Pawlenty released its report. Redesigns of the Minnesota Department of Revenue website keep changing the link to access this report. I am posting the report of the Minnesota Governor’s 21st Century Tax Reform Commission and a brief summary of its recommendations […]