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Peter Stark

Mora, Minnesota
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Posted on 04/17/13 at 01:29 pm in response to Is Minnesota friendly to small businesses?

MinnPost published an article not long ago about tax-and-cost business indexes that I think is relevant to the discussion here.

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Posted on 04/03/13 at 10:50 am in response to Teachers-pension rescue bill moving

Of the global financial crisis of 2007? A much bigger reason why pensions in all sectors across the world were decimated.

Posted on 02/27/13 at 10:12 am in response to Former Republican State Auditor Pat Anderson supports gay marriage

Gonna need some evidence that "punative taxation" is a causal factor in limiting social mobility. Feel free to post peer-reviewed econometric studies. I'd love to see where you're getting this from! (probably Rush Limbaugh)

Posted on 01/24/13 at 12:59 pm in response to Dayton's budget undermines both job growth and economic growth

Mr. Nelson must have misread/not read the Federal Reserve article he cited as evidence that tax-and-cost indexes are a better predictor of economic growth than quality of life indexes. While it may be true that tax-and-cost indexes are better predictors, the authors state:
"Although we found that policies associated with a higher ranking on the tax-and-cost indexes—lower taxes and costs of doing business—lead to faster economic growth, the role of these policies should not be...