Before the rich can be soaked, they have to pay their fair share.(NEWS)(Nick Coleman)
Byline: Nick Coleman; Staff Writer
With the advent of global warming, Minnesota can no longer count on brutally cold weather to keep out the riffraff.
We need high taxes for that.
I'm only joking, but you'd think the Legislature's proposal to raise income taxes on the wealthiest 1 percent of Minnesota taxpayers amounts to putting signs up at the Iowa and Wisconsin lines saying, "Keep Out, Rich People."
It's an intriguing idea, I admit. No more rich people? No more Xanadus on Minnetonka, no ever-increasing demands for corporate tax breaks and endless public subsidies. But the headlines in the newspaper practically have been apocalyptic - "State's top tax rate may lead nation! …
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