Minnesota: A sick, twisted version of Old MacDonald...

Minnesota was a state E-I-E-I-Oh...

And in this state they had some taxes E-I-E-I-Oh..

With a tax-tax here, and a tax-tax-there, here a tax there a tax, everywhere a tax-tax.

And few are feeling the crunch like the folks in Old MacDonald-land themselves:

The Minnesota Taxpayer Association's annual 50-State Property Tax Comparison study, released Thursday, shows that outstate Minnesota has the third-highest commercial property taxes of any rural area in the country, based on 2007 taxes payable for a typical $25 million property.

Charlie Weaver, executive director of the Minneapolis-based Minnesota Business Partnership, said the numbers are “brutal” for rural Minnesota businesses.

“The rural business property tax continues to be a significant problem, especially since that is where we are having the hardest time finding jobs,” Weaver said. “Rural Minnesota is trying to maintain that job base. It doesn’t help when their businesses are being taxed out of the state.”

I think we need to commission a study as to why elected officials in Minnesota, namely the DFL, are so hell-bent on literally taxing us out of house and home.

But then they'd want to raise taxes to pay for the study.