Posted on 02/09/2006 4:12:03 PM PST by Rakkasan1
MINNEAPOLIS - The U.S. Census Bureau reports that overall taxes in Minnesota are high, but the taxman has a light touch on smokes, gambling and booze. The state has the fourth heaviest tax burden in the United States, but so-called sin taxes are less than the national average. The overall ranking is because incomes are higher in Minnesotan than most other states and because Minnesota relies more heavily on a progressive state income tax. Nan Madden of the nonprofit Minnesota Budget Project says it's no surprise that sin taxes are lower-than-average. She says when the national economy slowed down in recent years, other states hiked sin taxes. Minnesota didn't, in part because of Gov. Pawlenty's no-new-taxes pledge.
(Excerpt) Read more at duluthsuperior.com ...
Again, hence the tagline.
No we just pay 75 cents a pack in a health surcharge.
Its not a tax according to Pawlenty.
yep, it's a "fee"
and income tax is a "voluntary contribution".(sarcasm)
Yaaaa butcha got great roads up der in Minnesota.....cuz of dem dair taxes...
ok..... I can say that because I was born and raised in Granite Falls and I am the rogue conservative in the immediate family
Well then...the sinless sin taxers better remedy this tout suite!!!
Pfffft! Feh!
FMCDH(BITS)
Texas dead last. Darn.
Some drink tea and forget. Better to eat Japaleno's and remember?
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