...governments' revenues from municipal liquor stores. The last time an excise tax was raised on alcohol ? by the federal government in 1990 ? it caused widespread decline in sales and led to significant job losses. Those repercussions will be...
WALKER - Two-thirds of Cass County's employee retirement program is under the direction of Congress and the Minnesota Legislature. The county controls only a retirement insurance program available to some employees. The county employs about 260 people.
...most artillery and air traffic.Commenting on the federal government talk of closing some military bases around the country, St. Sauver said the federal government cannot close Camp Ripley, because it is a state-owned...
...right-wing blogosphere someone was already concocting a storyline that would blame the crime on Barack Obama and the federal government. Alex Jones came through with impressive rapidity.Jones runs a radio show from Austin, Texas. He describes...
...should be handled by each state in the country. It's a state's rights issue that should not be mandated by the federal government. For example, if the Minnesota Legislature decides to pass a bill that permits gays to marry and the governor signs...
...economic downturn and is projected to have sufficient reserves - well within the solvency levels recommended by the federal government - to meet future needs.The proposal also contains $750,000 in grants for Enterprise Minnesota - legislation...
...billion to $20 billion per year. That is a small fraction of the new spending the Affordable Care Act creates.The federal government should ensure that state-based, high-risk pools are properly funded, perhaps in the form of block grants to...
...economic downturn and is projected to have sufficient reserves - well within the solvency levels recommended by the federal government - to meet future needs."Not only does this bill cut taxes for area businesses and put more money in their pockets...
...hundred years ago this month, in 1913, the states ratified the 16th Amendment to the Constitution which allowed the federal government to levy an income tax. Years earlier the Congress had passed an income tax but the Supreme Court struck it down...
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