...get their check from the waitress. Despite its lack of glamour, tax policy is the central focus of the Minnesota Taxpayers Association and through the years the MTA has developed a respectable reputation as a source of non-partisan common...

...warfare when House DFLers realize it's time to change this outdated viewpoint. In a recent report, the Minnesota Taxpayers Association noted that its research "supports the position of those who argue for across-the-board proportionate...

...progressive in the nation. Cut the tax rates in all brackets. We'd like to close with a quote from the Minnesota Taxpayers Association, a non-partisan group that analyzes our state's tax climate. "We think it's unfair to use one rate...

...taxpayers shouldn't look for any real simplification until the 2001 legislative session. The governor told the Minnesota Taxpayers Association Tuesday his advisers will devise recommendations for his next budget proposal on ways to streamline taxes...

...be pressing those ideas on lawmakers. Dan Salomone, executive director of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Minnesota Taxpayers Association, believes the state could use income tax relief and property tax reform. ''I think we can afford to do...

...with funding from the state's tobacco settlement and from the surplus in the health care access fund. The Minnesota Taxpayer Association has pointed out the sick tax fails in two major principles of good tax policy -- fairness and visibility...

...measure of state government finance is provided every year by the U.S. Census Bureau and analyzed by the Minnesota Taxpayers Association, the oldest tax research group in the state and heavily funded by business interests. Nevertheless, Dan...

...most income and property tax rankings, according to a state-by-state study released Thursday by the Minnesota Taxpayers Association. The most dramatic of the revelations is that the state has fallen out of the top 10 in all but the highest...

...manipulations were done last year by the Legislature. There will be no more easy picking. And while groups like the Minnesota Taxpayers Association have suggested ways to streamline government and cut costs, it's unlikely the entire $3 billion deficit...

...with the spending side before you open up the tax question." -- Dan Salomone, executive director of the Minnesota Taxpayers Association, on how the shortfall should be approached "We stand ready and willing to talk with the administration...