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Posted on March 29 at 9:59 p.m.
Let us look at the data clarson:
Source: = http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/inc...
For 2006
County Tax Collected
AITKIN $10,634,126
ANOKA $363,345,225
BECKER $23,386,867
BELTRAMI $27,047,408
BENTON $30,771,829
BIG STONE $4,286,167
BLUE EARTH $58,202,019
BROWN $25,385,299
CARLTON $23,846,788
CARVER $162,523,323
CASS $26,304,798
CHIPPEWA $21,917,096
CHISAGO $52,654,307
CLAY $41,384,436
CLEARWATER $4,758,423
COOK $4,544,133
COTTONWOOD $8,043,724
CROW WING $52,847,710
DAKOTA $567,762,808
DODGE $20,407,429
DOUGLAS $35,306,737
FARIBAULT $15,254,887
FILLMORE $15,860,830
FREEBORN $23,653,485
GOODHUE $46,851,994
GRANT $4,943,761
HENNEPIN $2,106,776,661
HOUSTON $18,007,787
HUBBARD $13,746,100
ISANTI $32,335,311
ITASCA $32,892,469
JACKSON $7,484,046
KANABEC $10,779,906
KANDIYOHI $40,377,609
KITTSON $3,186,603
KOOCHICHING $9,160,543
LAC-QUI-PARLE $5,626,626
LAKE $8,674,454
LAKE OF THE WOODS $2,716,668
LE SUEUR $25,744,557
LINCOLN $3,567,038
LYON $23,400,726
MCLEOD $34,088,037
MAHNOMEN $1,850,496
MARSHALL $7,201,605
MARTIN $17,968,580
MEEKER $19,231,475
MILLE LACS $17,858,291
MORRISON $21,832,689
MOWER $31,026,668
MURRAY $6,866,648
NICOLLET $31,019,721
NOBLES $13,862,634
NORMAN $4,628,346
OLMSTED $184,592,367
OTTER TAIL $46,141,406
PENNINGTON $24,354,971
PINE $15,906,161
PIPESTONE $6,965,368
POLK $22,077,971
POPE $9,274,773
RAMSEY $607,066,006
RED LAKE $2,543,168
REDWOOD $12,584,778
RENVILLE $14,822,471
RICE $56,534,938
ROCK $8,544,662
ROSEAU $18,528,751
ST. LOUIS $172,753,264
SCOTT $182,462,967
SHERBURNE $88,977,244
SIBLEY $11,726,769
STEARNS $147,569,937
STEELE $34,633,577
STEVENS $9,468,992
SWIFT $7,823,217
TODD $12,299,942
TRAVERSE $2,599,880
WABASHA $17,171,018
WADENA $7,451,492
WASECA $15,427,966
WASHINGTON $388,865,754
WATONWAN $7,559,299
WILKIN $5,016,273
WINONA $42,584,245
WRIGHT $127,007,545
YELLOW MEDICINE $8,502,576
When you add the total Income Tax collected for the entire state you get $6,543,677,651
When you add the total collected in Anoka, Carver, Ramsey, Hennepin, Dakota, Scott, and Washington, you get $4,378,802,744
Simple Ratio indicates that 66.92% (rounded) of the Income Taxes collected were from the Seven Country Metro Area.
If only 60% of those tax dollars are spent in the Metro Area, then 6.92 percent of the revenue is being re-directed to OUTSTATE spending. Who is benefiting? and WHO isn't carrying their own weight?
Posted on March 25 at 11:14 a.m.
Why is he pushing for Poltergeist?
As for Metro versus outstate or Greater MN, what's in a name or label?
If it's true that 60% of all taxes taken in in the state are spent in the metro area....What percent of the taxes taken in were collected from the Metro area? 70%, 80%, 90%? What is the average income level for Greater MN, compared to Metro MN? What percentage of the MN population lives in Metro, vs greater MN?
Don't get me wrong, I love being in greater MN. It seems like all the real power and money affecting decisions for the state however come from the Metro Area.
Posted on March 25 at 11:07 a.m.
Birds of a feather, flock together, and leave distinctly similar droppings.
Posted on March 19 at 10:38 p.m.
"$750,000 exists to improve the lake"
Enough Said...
Posted on March 19 at 2:41 p.m.
$750K, that seems like a lot-o-clams, let's not waste too many of them on studies and grandious ideas. The Lake was Nice in the late 70's, it could be excellent. Make some improvements on the shoreline/sidewalks/roads, chase the egrets/cormorants away, replant the Islands with growing vegitation. Spend some $ on solutions for cleaning up the water (some). I don't think we'll ever see a day when anyone can swim in there, but canoes or paddleboats would be nice. And YES a controlled population of ducks and geese adds to the beauty of the area.
Posted on March 16 at 5:56 p.m.
Everybody (else), Everything, Everytime, Me, Mine, I, Puff Poof Pompous.
No Cooper YOU would be better off somewhere else. This town obviously has done you wrong. Use 10 of those supposed IQ points and change it up already.
Posted on March 16 at 3:26 p.m.
Therein lies the problem. Some of us have learned why we were once so unhappy, others cannot even bring themselves to consider the possibility. Everyone has troubles, it is a matter of how one chooses to face them while dealing with life and the people around them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmE7tTzJk...
Just because one is paranoid doesn't mean that everyone isn't out to get them.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88edk0qwU...
Posted on March 16 at 1:53 p.m.
This is not a day to dwell on Linda Ronstadt, get yourself out of the house, away from the keyboard, into the sunshine. It is a wonderful day to take walk around lake alice and enjoy the flora/fauna while looking for signs of spring and renewal.
Make a deal with yourself today, to put aside all that baggage from your past. Leave yourself a note before you go to bed so that when you wake up tomorrow, you will not spend a second of that day re-living the things you left behind today.
Posted on March 16 at 11:34 a.m.
Lake Alice should become an area that represents Fergus Falls to its visitors. This is a wonderful city with lots of natural beauty (which I suppose many take for granted). However Lake Alice has become one of the The Biggest eye-sores in the area, and we don't seem to care. Goodbye to those tree killing varmits.
Let's find a way to convert this resource into a destination for people and a prize for the city.
As for the Kirkbride, I can think of one who should become a resident, provided there are at least two white coats in attendance and treatment on the agenda.
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Posted on April 16 at 5:10 p.m.
That's funny ibejim, I don't remember voting for Pelosi and the rest of the spending spree nuts that have been on the hill for those years. And I sure didn't vote for the biggest enable of inflation, taxes, and spending in the worlds history either. But whatever, it'll be fun, I'm sure.
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