We should all be skeptical of any legislation that makes it easier for a bill to become law. It’s one of the primary reasons we opposed the Republican proposal several years ago to transform Minnesota’s legislature into a “unicameral” legislature – a single body. It’s also another reason why a “political trifecta” of one-party control of state government requires all of our vigilance to more …
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A Thorough Explanation of Why Inflation Drives Food Prices Higher
Human Progress provides an apples-to-apples look at the cost of items in their “food basket” and, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, uses food prices at a Walmart in Cincinnati to show the cost of purchasing those 42 food items. A very useful graph shows the number of hours needed to work since 2019 until 2024 to purchase those items. “[b]ecause of inflation between 2019 and …
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Gov. Tim Walz Uses ‘Tax Code as a Subsidy Machine for Politically Favored Groups’
If you’re like us, we’ll bet you’ve been ambushed in recent days by friends, relatives, former neighbors, all asking the same question: what is Tim Walz is really like. Judging from the glowing media reports since Vice President Kamala Harris selected Walz to serve as her running mate, it appears that Gov. Walz created a nearly perfect utopian state that must have been in ruins prior to …