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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
-They complain about coastal liberals, but the taxes from California and New York are what covers their farm subsidies, helps maintain their highways, and keeps their hospitals in their sparsely populated areas open for business.
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In Minnesota, cities and counties are not allowed to levy income or sales taxes on their own. The state reserves that power to itself and collects all of those tax revenues, which it then distributes to municipalities in what is unfortunately called "Local Government Aid." There's no "aid" to it. It's the cities' cut of sales and income taxes, but Minneapolis gets more of it than a small town does, so the GOP, which just re-took both houses of the legislature, will again try to slash it. They did the last time they were in charge, leading to significant property tax increases all over the place (counties and cities can do their own property taxes).
To which I want to propose that instead of LGA, we just keep all tax revenues in the cities and counties where they are collected. See, good folks of the red exurbs and rural areas, just how gigantically fucked you guys would be without money from Minneapolis and St. Paul to pay for all your shit. You bastards think it's the other way around, but it's not and it wouldn't take you long to realize it.
We could do the same thing at the federal level as far as I'm concerned too.
