[Annette Meeks published in the Duluth News-Tribune, September 1, 2017]Gov. Mark Dayton announced in mid-August that, starting in May, the state will require a biodiesel blend of 20 percent. The move makes Minnesota an outlier. State officials decided once again to pick winners and losers, and, this time, soybean farmers won.In the meantime, most Minnesotans likely will pay more for groceries and …
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When the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) makes a mistake, apparently they double down and do it again. And again. That appears to be what we learned earlier this week when our friends at the Tax Foundation reviewed a newly released investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Inspector General. One of the key findings in that report is that from January 2015 until …
Eight years ago, I founded the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota. Our mission was very precise: we sought to provide market-based solutions to some of the toughest problems facing our state. Our research and investigative efforts continue to focus on eliminating waste, fraud and abuse in state and local government. There is probably no better poster child for government waste …
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