Among the myriad spending hikes passed in the 2013 legislative session was a huge boost to Local Government Aid (LGA). LGA is the redistributive aid program that transfers state tax dollars to cities, an arrangement that proponents dubiously claim "buys down" local property taxes. In reality, LGA does no such thing, as MinnPost recently noted: "Historically, over the last four decades, property …
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