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Come for weather, stay for the taxes...
1 posted on 04/21/2015 5:52:24 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
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To: TurboZamboni

Bring warm clothes.


2 posted on 04/21/2015 5:56:09 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To address the looming shortage of workers, Greater MSP has assembled a “talent task force” of Fortune 500 CEOs and up-and-coming professionals. It plans to roll out a marketing campaign to trumpet the state’s strengths later this year.

Yeah. That'll get them coming back.

3 posted on 04/21/2015 6:02:15 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Vacations are great during the winter but I would never want to live anywhere else.


5 posted on 04/21/2015 6:22:43 AM PDT by Sawdring
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Come for weather, stay for the Somalians...


6 posted on 04/21/2015 6:23:44 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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This is what happens when a state's leaders look at places like New York and California and yearn -- for some unfathomable reason -- to be like them. Taxes go up, businesses shut down, people hit the road, and the death spiral begins.

If Minnesota works hard at it, they can be the next Detroit.

7 posted on 04/21/2015 6:37:30 AM PDT by IronJack
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The issue with MN isn’t the weather, that’s just the one that people who aren’t used to it think about. It’s the politics of the place, and what that does to state spending and to taxes. When every budget surplus is a reason to raise annual spending, and every budget shortage as a reason to raise taxes, people don’t have much hope that sanity will ever prevail. Minneapolis-St. Paul is basically Toronto with worse weather and more socialists.

There are a lot of great things about the state, but when someone can basically get a 10% raise just by moving across the border to SD, having easy access to craft beer and the MN pro sports scene (such as it is) loses a lot of its appeal.


9 posted on 04/21/2015 6:43:39 AM PDT by Cyrano ("To throw that bag away, madness!" "But what a gesture...")
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Can’t they bring in more foreign workers to abuse?


12 posted on 04/21/2015 7:00:27 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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This is what happened to NY. Illegals and welfare parasites will rush in to fill the void.


13 posted on 04/21/2015 7:50:49 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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Leaving to join ISIS?


14 posted on 04/21/2015 8:09:18 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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Wait a minute...

Didn't governor goofy recently say that no one is leaving Minnesota ??

It isn't the taxes, it isn't the socialist ways of doing things --- no, no one is leaving and you cannot convince him otherwise !!

Hey goofy, our entire family left, and you lost a lot of state income tax from us, so don't tell us it ain't happening !!

15 posted on 04/21/2015 8:17:27 AM PDT by coder2
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Governor Dayton and the DFL recently proposed a 15 cent per gallon increase in the state gasoline tax ostensibly for repair of roads and bridges. This new tax is despite having over a $1 billion surplus in the budget. A recent poll showed 85% of Minnesotans opposing this gas tax increase, but I expect Gov. Dayton may go ahead with a gas tax anyway as he already had designs for spending the billion dollar surplus and the DFL has a majority in the legislature. Maybe Minnesotans will finally wake up and not elect tax and spend liberals, but the election and re-election of Al Franken as Senator from Minnesota doesn’t give me much hope.


17 posted on 04/21/2015 9:17:19 AM PDT by The Great RJ (Pants up...Don't loot!)
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I’ve lived in lots of locations in the USA.
Most were better than MN.
Your average Minnesotan never travels anywhere other than Vegas and the local 5 state area.

Colorado beats MN by 1000%.
Oregon is the most similar to MN but with better weather.


18 posted on 04/21/2015 9:34:43 AM PDT by Zathras
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I recently read a liberal commentary that said Minn was an economic paradise because they have high taxes.

Hmmmmm.........


19 posted on 04/21/2015 9:37:10 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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Here in Texas, they run some funny radio ads for Kingford’s charcoal, where a group of guys are grilling and ragging on their friend who recently moved to Minnesota who is freezing his you-know-what off.


20 posted on 04/21/2015 9:39:37 AM PDT by dfwgator
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