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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FFM hosts capacity crowd for John Stossel On Tuesday evening April 17, an enthusiastic crowd of conservatives joined the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota for an evening with John Stossel. Stossel is currently on a national book tour promoting his recently released book, entitled “No, They Can’t: Why Government Fails- But Individuals Succeed.” …
Minnesota Non-Profits Receive $440,000 to Fight Keystone XL Pipeline On Monday, the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota released an Accountability Alert that showed three Minnesota environmental non-profit advocacy groups received nearly half a million dollars in out-of-state funding to oppose the Keystone oil pipeline project. The funding, provided by a well-known liberal …
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