You also missed that MN gained $33 billion in taxable income in the year you are whining about them losing $2 billion.
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That is some funny shit with cherry picked statistics and outright lies.
Let's start with the last claim.
He claimed that it is the upper wage earners leaving MN, but when we look at the actual numbers from the IRS. The average income of those leaving MN is less than the average income of MN that stay. That would mean that it is NOT the upper wage earners leaving. But I suppose you think we should ignore the IRS on this.
Tax returns of people leaving MN according to the IRS
AGI greater than $100,000 - 619,957 filers left the state
AGI less than $50,000 - 1,013,847 filers left the state.
I don't know about you but I can clearly see that more lower income tax filers left the state.
Then let's look at electricity prices.
Your source suddenly decided to not compare MN to the rest of the country.
MN electricty prices are lower than the average for the country.
MN electricity prices are slightly higher than IA, SD, and ND but a little side note is those three states get a large percentage of their electricity from renewable sources, SD gets about 75% of its electricity from renewables. IA gets about 50% of its electricity from wind. ND gets 40% of its electricity from renewables. I guess it pays to increase the percentage of electricity you get from renewables.
When it comes to reading, your source again decided to not compare MN to the rest of the country.
While MN has fallen a little bit in the overall rankings it is still ranked #17 in education compared to other states.
ND is 28th, Texas is 29th.
I guess you are like a 5 year old in that you like shiny things that dazzle your eyes but you can't do the work of an adult and check to see if the shiny things are true.