The campaign Minnesota desperately needs, Part IV

DFL politicians won't admit this, but they advocate for socialism. Tim Walz is one of the exceptions. He said "One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness." Actually, socialism is theft. It takes from the earners and gives to the nonproductive. Families with common sense understand that each family has obligations and responsibilities. If you want your kids to be better off than you are, that requires capital formation. Period. Without capital formation, widespread prosperity doesn't exist. In fact, where socialism exists, the middle class doesn't exist.

A wise economist once told me that only 2 classes of people exist in socialist nations: oligarchs and serfs. The late, great economist Milton Friedman pointed out to Phil Donahue that the only places where people escape grinding poverty are where they have "largely free trade" and capitalism. Further, he was thoroughly convinced that capitalism was the only system that'd consistently provide that outcome. Here's Friedman giving Donahue a free economics lesson:

Each time that the DFL has a governing trifecta, they raise taxes. Further, when the DFL has the opportunity, they order cities, counties and schools to do things without funding these mandates. They're called unfunded mandates. To those who serve on the State Government Finance Committee, they're known as 'property tax hikes waiting to happen.

We should have a lengthy conversation about unfunded mandates and how they're tied to significant property tax hikes. Let's talk, too, about how these unfunded mandates don't help improve test results. Think about that. You're paying out money to keep test scores flat or declining. TThat's a rip-off if ever I heard of one.