The Great Margaret Kelliher Depression

Month	2007 Employment	2008 Employment	2009 Employment	Jobs Lost under DFL leadership- 2007-09
January	2,740,819	2,734,638	2,669,553	-71,266 jobs
February	2,743,305	2,737,682	2,667,200	-76,105 jobs
March	2,751,999	2,744,995	2,677,032	-74,967 jobs
April	2,762,138	2,773,812	2,711,875	-50,263 jobs
May	2,780,904	2,785,043	2,722,823	-58,081 jobs
June	2,803,642	2,801,754	2,734,978	-68,664 jobs
July	2,813,752	2,815,320	2,770,222	-43,530 jobs
August	2,791,823	2,804,161	2,755,665	-36,528 jobs
September	2,778,567	2,787,211	pending	pending
October	2,789,359	2,801,016	pending	pending
November	2,795,066	2,767,770	pending	pending
December	2,764,107	2,724,228	pending	pending

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Andy Gildea writes:

(Yet the DFL has) told small business owners and employers every day for nearly three years that they are not paying their “fair share” of Minnesota taxes.

They have been threatened constantly with higher income taxes, higher business taxes, higher property taxes, higher taxes on their investments in business expansions, and virtually every other tax.

The DFL have also voted to raise every person’s income tax rates, create a new top income tax rate, and eliminate the income-tax deduction for interest paid on home mortgages.

As a consequence, employers have not felt positive about investing in Minnesota jobs. In fact, the unemployment rate has increased by about 50% since the DFL took control of the House.

Is it any wonder that places like South Dakota and Iowa have been successfully courting jobs away from Minnesota for the past two to three years?

Electing the absolutely clueless to perform important functions has its consequences. Consequences that should now be all too apparent to anyone with any kind of a clue.