First, let me make it clear I do not think taxes are all bad:  Taxes pay for our schools, our roads, make possible care for the invalid and aged, and when spent wisely, create opportunity for future benefit to the economy as a whole. 

                What I am against is the inability to pay taxes.  When government turns on the goose(s) that laid the golden egg, this is when I get concerned.

                Having lived in Minneapolis and worked in apartment maintenance I have an idea how many people are unemployed in my Ward.  It is just as bad or worse in some other Minneapolis neighborhoods, and not always because of a lack of motivation or desire to work.  I am afraid of too high a concentration of unemployed people. 

                This is not only why I disdain more high density housing in my Ward, but also why I think the City has to be more aggressive in job creation.  In truth, I think very little is done to attract business to Minneapolis, unless you consider high density housing construction projects job growth. 

                If you want to know how Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and school district taxes are affecting some people come door knocking with me and we will go over to a retired nurses’ house on Grand Avenue, or a small market on Nicollet, but we cannot go to the machine shop that used to be across the Pleasant Avenue from Miller Towing because they moved out of the Whittier neighborhood.