Welcome to My Blog
I’m a retired legislative analyst who worked for the Research Department of the Minnesota House of Representatives for over 40 years. WARNING: if you stumble on this blog and decide to read it, my posts are often long and always boring. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
I write mainly about the issues that I worked on:
- Individual income taxes
- Corporate income taxes
- Tax exempt bonds
- Tax increment financing
- Tax expenditures
- Pensions and retirement plan financing
- State and local government finance
- Legislative process and related legal issues
Fraud Framing
This is my attempt to provide a little tax centric context for the discussions of fraud in Minnesota social services programs.
March IRS update
Trump lawsuit NY Times headline that has to be an understatement: Justice Dept. Struggles to Respond to Trump’s Suit Against I.R.S. (3/31/2026). Excerpts (my emphasis added): The Justice Department is struggling to decide how to respond to President Trump’s lawsuit demanding at least $10 billion from the I.R.S., as the department’s lawyers try to resolve…
Tariff Case
The result was predictable; the statute’s words mean what they say. Its main significance is negative. Upholding the tariffs would have had big effects, politically, economically, and legally. Striking them down, not so much. The case IMO is not a counterexample to the Court’s path of rewriting the constitution to give presidents more negative power…
Books I’ve Read Recently – Taxation and Resentment
This is another in my series of bad high school book reports on selected nonfiction books that I have read recently. I write them to memorialize my thoughts in the hope that I will remember a bit more of what I read. Author and book Andrea Louise Campbell, Taxation and Resentment Race, Party, and Class…
February IRS update
The judicial mill handling data cases grinds slowly and more evidence of HR problems surfaces.
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